Renfield (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
darchildre) wrote2018-12-18 06:02 pm
darchildre) wrote2018-12-18 06:02 pm
(no subject)
So, lo these many years ago*, I decided that it would be a good idea to make my own for-my-own-consumption-only unabridged audiobooks of The Lord of the Rings. Because the available options for unabridged recordings of LotR are...not good, and I enjoy reading aloud. This was obviously a ridiculous undertaking because I am terrible about completing long-term projects in anything like a timely manner, as is evidenced by the fact that is 2018, I haven't done any recording at all this year, and the last time I worked on it, I had only hit the beginning of The Two Towers.
However.
On a whim, I decided to listen to some of it while I knitted on my dinner break and you guys, it's pretty good. I mean, it's not in any way professional quality, but I read pretty well**. I have a long vacation coming up and may have to start working on this thing again, so that I can then listen to it.***
*That is, in 2015.
**I am also fortunate in that I'm not weirded out by the sound of my own voice most of the time.
***The problem with reading The Two Towers is that I have listened to the BBC radio version so many times that I'm not sure I can read the same lines without mimicking the inflections used in that recording.
It's going to be an issue.
However.
On a whim, I decided to listen to some of it while I knitted on my dinner break and you guys, it's pretty good. I mean, it's not in any way professional quality, but I read pretty well**. I have a long vacation coming up and may have to start working on this thing again, so that I can then listen to it.***
*That is, in 2015.
**I am also fortunate in that I'm not weirded out by the sound of my own voice most of the time.
***The problem with reading The Two Towers is that I have listened to the BBC radio version so many times that I'm not sure I can read the same lines without mimicking the inflections used in that recording.
It's going to be an issue.