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Unfinished Tales
- Narrated by: Timothy West, Samuel West
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
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Summary
JRR Tolkien’s legacy of short stories which inhabit the realm of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, on audio for the first time.
Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the 20th century’s most acclaimed popular author.
The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as Gandalf’s lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand and an exact description of the military organisation of the Riders of Rohan.
Unfinished Tales also contains the only story about the long ages of Numenor before its downfall and all that is known about such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantiri and the legend of Amroth. The tales were collated and edited by JRR Tolkien’s son and literary heir, Christopher Tolkien, who provides a short commentary on each story, helping the listener to fill in the gaps and put each story into the context of the rest of his father’s writings.
Critic reviews
"Another monument to the incredible imagination of Tolkien." (Sunday Telegraph)
"Moments of mythic grandeur." (Sunday Times)
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- Asa
- 18-11-23
Informative
Great to listen to it you want an education in the world of Middle Earth
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- Harrison Louca
- 29-07-22
Never heard before and loved it
Massive lord of the rings fan and had somehow never heard this or the Silmarillion 😅😅
Loved both
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-11-22
Another stupendous production and rendering.
The content is beyond reproach; the delivery by father and son rendered with great patience, a reverence for the lore and a deep love for the works of a true genius. "Thank you for listening" he says at the end. No indeed, THANK YOU for taking the time to read it for us.👍
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- A.C.
- 21-11-21
Awesome Tolkien
Expands&explains details in the Hobbit, LOTR and Silmarilion. Loved it and will read it again.
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- Debi Hutchinson
- 20-11-22
wonderful performance
loved it! will now go and actually read the book as I was struggling with it
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-06-23
Great collection of Tolkien history.
Great collection of Tolkien history, that is well curated and expertly narrated. Great to always learn more.
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- sam
- 07-05-23
Tolkien the Master
Brilliant additions to the 3 ages of Middle Earth. Tolkien's world is so rich and everything links together so beautifully. World building at its finest.
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- Kindle Customer
- 14-06-21
Great pair of narrators!
Some minor mispronounciations my only complaint. I want them to do all the other books!
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- Emerkar
- 14-01-22
Fabulously presented
This book is for the more “hardcore” Middle-Earth fans. As more of a Silmarillion reader, I nevertheless enjoyed myself immensely when listening to stories and anecdotes set in the later ages.
The narrators are superb. Father and son wrote and edited the book. Similarly, father and son narrate the book. The older narrator reads Christopher’s footnotes and comments, as a lovely tribute to the editor who recently passed away at the advanced age of 96 (the book is published in 1980 though). Samuel West has the voice for the ageless, eternal storyteller and scholar, the real-world Illuvatar.
I would really love to listen to their version of Nature of Middle-Earth.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-11-21
offcuts from world of evergreen modern classic
The first half of this collection of snippets of work that never made it into the final works of Tolkein offers little that isnt a (highly readable) precis of the denoument of the tragedy that is The Sons of Hurin.
This collection is only suitable for those already entranced by the epic of the ring that binds them all. (a little like me) we hear a little more of the often mentioned Numenoreans. i enjoyed some beautiful pastoral descriptions of the early days of idyllic Numenor......and once more see Tolkein illustrating how easily conflict born of envy begins...as also towards the end of the work similar strife is awakenened within Istar Saruman when it is in fact Istar Mythril who recieves one of the Elves three rings from Cereborn rather than himself.
Best of all is written the disaster of Gladden Fields where the war is all but lost....isildur killed unarmed exhausted and drenched having lost The Ring ,been forced by his doomed son and heir to forsake the field of battle ,and dessert.
There are plenty of other gems..a different working of Thorin Okenshield being persuaded by Gandalf to re take Erebor...how and why.....The battles for Isen and the painful ominous and unguliant movement of Saurons forces ever westward...evever closer to and by default The Shires.
Although they are mentioned fairly regularly .there is disappointingly little detail about a relationshilp between Galadriel and Cereborn.
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