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Sep. 9th, 2015 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreY'know what I want? I want an unabridged professionally-done audiobook of Lord of the Rings that isn't read by Rob Inglis. Because, I'm sorry, I'm sure he did the best job he could and kudos to him for reading the whole damned thing and doing all the songs, but Mr Inglis' voices leave a lot to be desired. As does his singing. It is very frustrating.
(Also frustrating is the Phil Dragash version. I mean, dude did a lot of work on that thing and it's pretty amazing, but maybe somewhere in there he should have looked up how to pronounce the words he didn't know. It kinda throws you out of the story when the narrator starts talking about the griddle that Goldberry's wearing.)
In an ideal world, we would have an unabridged full-cast recording with all the people who worked on the 1981 BBC version. Because that version is in all ways perfect. But even in our current not ideal world, we deserve a better audiobook than the one we've got.
(We also deserve a better audiobook reader for ASoIaF than Roy Dotrice, but that is the least of that series' troubles.)
(Also frustrating is the Phil Dragash version. I mean, dude did a lot of work on that thing and it's pretty amazing, but maybe somewhere in there he should have looked up how to pronounce the words he didn't know. It kinda throws you out of the story when the narrator starts talking about the griddle that Goldberry's wearing.)
In an ideal world, we would have an unabridged full-cast recording with all the people who worked on the 1981 BBC version. Because that version is in all ways perfect. But even in our current not ideal world, we deserve a better audiobook than the one we've got.
(We also deserve a better audiobook reader for ASoIaF than Roy Dotrice, but that is the least of that series' troubles.)
