![]() If you like one reader then listen to them. Criticism for one reader over another seems counter productive. I have enjoyed each for different reasons. I have personally enjoyed both readings of the original text. Tolkien fans should feel exceptionally blessed for having multiple interpretations to choose from. Every narrator is going to have their own interpretation on any given story. I come back to it because I am disconcerted by all the comparisons between this and the Rob Inglis performance. Thank you for this masterpiece of narration. My mother read these books to me while I was still in the womb, and 56 years later the story remains an essential, vital part of my life. That's some of the highest praise I could ever pay anyone. The only narrators I can think of who would be anywhere near this performance would be Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee, or Cate Blanchett, and they wouldn't be better. I'm not finished with these new releases yet, but so far I have not one single complaint to make. He's one of the finest actors of his generation. I knew instantly he would be brilliant, and I was not mistaken. However, when I heard that Andy Serkis was doing a new narration of what I consider some of the finest books ever written in the English language, I just about died. I own the Rob Inglis narration, and he did quite a decent job.
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