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From: suna@aecom.UUCP (David Suna)
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Subject: Re: Lord of The Rings on tape
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 11:12:24 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 11:12:24 1985
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> The dramatization was good, and in my opinion, well worth the money.  One of
> the problems I have reading the Lord of the Rings is I get so caught up in
> the story that I read too fast to really enjoy the prose.  The tape rolls
> along at its own pace, and the prose just keeps coming.  Frodo's encounter
> with Shelob is exciting enough to send chills down your back, and the final
> scene at Mount Doom made me stop in traffic (I use a Walkman).
> 
> Even 12 cassettes are not enough to really do the story justice, however.
> I would have liked to hear more of the Elvish tongue spoken and more of the
> heroic verse.  How do you give the effect of Treebeard talking without
> blowing a whole side of a cassette?  But one can't have everything.  

Half the fun I had in reading the book was to leave up to my imagination
the nuances of speech and other such details.  As with any presentation 
of a book that I have read, finding out how other people envision the
book always seems to detract from my feelings for the book.  This goes for 
movies, television dramatizations, and tapes.  Nothing substitutes for
a vivid imagination.

						David Suna