Lord of the Rings: Gift Set

His voice is rich and full, from the lowest note (his rendering of Treebeard is almost as scary as it is awesome), to his highest pitch. All the characters sound like individuals, and Inglis rarely falters in this fully unabridged reading of The Lord of the Rings.

Buying this audiobook is (strangely) like buying an elderly gentleman in a box... to tell you a fantastic tale whenever you want. It is far superior to the film because you literally feel like you are moving with Frodo, inch by inch, towards the land of Shadow. It is funny, depressing, and sometimes darkly moving, but Inglis never deviates from his passion for storytelling.

One last point: this audio set is a reading of the book; it is not a dramatisation, like the BBC plays (as a previous review has stated).

Buy it, you will not be disappointed.


great at bedtime   September 10, 2003
 0 out of 14 found this review helpful

as a kid i used to listen to these audio tapes in bed and enjoyed them thoroughly. However, the films recreate tolkeins world far better than is described in the tapes. They are a good introduction to tolkein if you cant be bothered to read the books. Frodo is played by Ian Holm, who plays Bilbo in the films.


If you are about to see the film, get this!!   December 10, 2001
 28 out of 40 found this review helpful

The fantastic story of the lord of the rings has been put into a very easy to listen to style. i was given this set last xmas, and as someone who had read the book, found it stunning. I perticuarly liked the casting, as the voices are as you would imagine them to be. If you are going to see the film and have not yet read the book, buy this, and you will not regreat it.