BBC Radio Dramatization of the Lord of the Rings [1981] torrent

I will be seeding this indefinitely, from next monday on.

Uploaded on 09-01-2009

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This is a direct CD rip of the 1981 BBC Radio Dramatization of the Lord of the Rings.

Everything was done on a Plextor PX-W4012A and encoded at 96-160 VBR using the latest LAME version.
For more info, see

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-BBC-Dramatization/dp/0553456539/ref=sr_1_1/103-4204271-3439843?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184080048&sr=8-1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_(1981_radio_series)

Be advised that this is not the 2002 edition, which had some new narrations, music, and the remastered soundtrack by Stephen Oliver. This is taken from the cd box set released in 1999.
Still, you won't miss much.

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About the dramatization:

In my opinion, this is vastly superior to the movie, which had a horrid script making a mockery of Tolkiens story and language. Apart from the many omitted elements (which I can understand were necessary in the interest of providing a good arrative), there were some ridiculous twists which changed Tolkiens story completely. Jackson obviously did not care much for keeping Tolkiens story intact and whole. Though of course the eyecandy was incredible.

About the file quality:

Whether I've made the right encoding choice is of course a matter of debate, but the package can now be burned to a CD-R and transferred rather quickly (as opposed to FLAC for instance, which would've yielded a whopping 6 or 7 GB's to download). The quality is sufficient to play it on a portable mp3 player. Since it's mostly speech, you could even consider burning it to a cd (though listening on a hi-fi audio set would reveal many imperfections and artefacts of course).


--Curunir