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Much prefer the narrative structure of this book, compared to the first of the series. There is some beautiful writing and the narration by Rob Inglis is good. The plot is fairly simple, and the book is short (I finished it in just a few hours) but the setting is very well fleshed out. The concept o...
I listened to most of this audio book while in New Zealand and finished it on the bus to Matamata, home of the Hobbiton movie set. Felt rather poetic. :)It had been quite a while since I'd last read the book and while I remembered the main things, it was delightful to re-discover many of the small d...
I think I was 13 the last time I read The Hobbit. It was nice to revisit it with the kids. We listened to the audio version in the car while driving to and from vacation destinations.
I've just spent two months in Middle Earth, listening to audiobooks of The Hobbit and then each of the books in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, one after the other. Last week, when I finished The Two Towers, I thought it would be my favourite novel of the trilogy. In any event, I knew that I liked it...
For someone who's always been so sure that she didn't like fantasy, I've really surprised myself in recent times. Last year was the year of Harry Potter. This is the year of The Lord of the Rings. I realise now that I probably should have read Tolkien before Rowling. That way I would have understood...
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