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Originally Posted by ArathornJax
I would have LOVED to have heard an adaptation by your team of The Hobbit and I think the cost over time would have been made back and with profit, but sometimes in business decisions can be short term based.
I suspected that it may have shown you and your team what you did not want to do. Thanks for the response.
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It was probably a short-sighted decision, but no one knew that
TLOTR would be the success that it was - only when it was a hit did they decided to issue
The Hobbit on audio books as a companion piece - even though they were so different.
It is worth remembering that not everyone thinks so highly of our
LOTR; for instance I recently stumbled on a review of the CD set by Amanda Craig in
The Independent on Sunday, Dec 15, 2002:
I have often wondered why so many intelligent people loathe Lord of the Rings (BBC Radio Collection pounds 50, boxed set) with such passion. Had my first introduction to it been through the radio, then I too would despise it. Brian Sibley has updated his classic radio version, first broadcast in 1981. He should be forced to wear prosthetic feet in atonement for the ponderous mess he's made of both story and prose. There's scarcely a single line here that belongs to Tolkien. All the humour, tension, poetry and life have been jettisoned for plonking dialogue that sounds like something left over from The Archers. Furthermore, one of the book's greatest pleasures, that of working out the mysterious past through the unfolding events of the present, has been bypassed by means of a new framing device, presumably to bring it in line with the film. The whole exercise is an embarrassment.
Of course Ms Craig is perfectly entitled not to like it, but
"There's scarcely a single line here that belongs to Tolkien..." does beg the question of whether she has actually ever
read the book!
