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For me, the reason is in what Tolkien called the "bloom" of a book, that you only get on a first reading. I got it on my second reading, too. But I can't enjoy the book again in quite the way a new reader does (although I enjoy it in other ways). A really good dramatisation can make me feel that sense of wonder again. The BBC radio dramatisation did that, and it's also extremely faithful to the book. So it doesn't try to mend what isn't broken.
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"Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."
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