[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

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.

Fair enough. I don't feel the need personally for any other media versions of the books, but to each his own. Radio drama at least doesn't tend to play to perceived mass market desires that result in drastic changes to the basic story.