A must listen for you and your children. Fun, engaging, and wonderful theater of the mind.

The Audio quality for this selection is very poor.

I've seen or heard several renditions of Professor Tolkien's magnificent works and this one is, as I said, second only to the books themselves in more ways than I can count! The next best is the Rankin/Bass animated "Hobbit" and perhaps the Ralph Bakshee rendition of the first book and a half. I must say that the live-action movies take a poor third for the excessive liberties that were taken with the characters. The effort that Rankin/Bass made to complete Bakshee's work is utter trash! Thank heavens for "the Mind's Eye" who, I believe, first put these wonderful radio-plays on tape!

This is so horrible I don't know where to start.

Firstly the American accents are ridiculous - sorry but Tolkiens world is definitely based in Britain. The sound quality is terrible. The direction is ridiculous, the acting is worse than poor.

Do not waste your credits on this. Wait until a decent British actor reads the book.

I had a hard time understanding what the characters were saying with all the background noise of the dramatization.

I wanted to get an unabridged version of this book and series but it was not available at the time, now they are but disappointed I have to pay all over again for these books to hear them in that format.

The Narrator was good, it was the other characters that were hard to understand

None cut, but even out the extra background sounds so the voices could be understood more clearly.

We picked this book for a medium road trip, 45 minutes into the book was all we could take. The character voices were awful, sounded like 14 gents from Shady Shoals retirement home. To make it worse it sounded like it was mixed and recorded in a garage. Avoid this one like the plague

I need the real book they cant have this and not the original >:( im really upset about that!

Good book to listen to, the dramatization was super. You and your kids will enjoy this audio book.

Me and my kids hated this audio book. It's a poor recording and it's hard to follow. Pass this one by.