Microphones in Middle-earth...the BBC Lord of the Rings - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Mithalwen · 01-31-2012, 04:53 AM

I think all toes are up for treading given the timescale and I am delighted that interest has revived.

While the Episode by Episode thing is a useful excercise I hope there will be scope for discussion even after - perhaps more freeranging and the thread like the Road will go on.

I am only too happy that the series I have loved since childhood is still gaining admirers. Dilletante, I think the CD sets follow the books whereas the Cassettes (and original broadcast was chrononlogical so you may be out synch at times..

And of course The Grey Havens has the almost unbearably poignancy of John Le Mesurier's voice fading into the treble in Bilbo's last song *gulp*...

01-31-2012, 04:53 AM	#11
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	I think all toes are up for treading given the timescale and I am delighted that interest has revived. While the Episode by Episode thing is a useful excercise I hope there will be scope for discussion even after - perhaps more freeranging and the thread like the Road will go on. I am only too happy that the series I have loved since childhood is still gaining admirers. Dilletante, I think the CD sets follow the books whereas the Cassettes (and original broadcast was chrononlogical so you may be out synch at times.. And of course The Grey Havens has the almost unbearably poignancy of John Le Mesurier's voice fading into the treble in Bilbo's last song gulp... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace