The Hall of Fire

Sounds fantastic. Cannot wait until Christmas now! Oddly, I thought I had an incredibly clear memory of this programme, but I have no memory of a female narrator at all. I just remember Bernard Cribbins being brilliant as Bilbo, and that there were also some other actors playing the other roles, but...

BBC continuity announcements from my childhood are now "antiquated"? Now THAT makes me feel like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. :-)

So the "Jackanory" CD has been ordered, but it is going to be a Christmas present from my wife, which means I have to wait nine months! I've waited 35 years to hear this again, so it shouldn't be a problem waiting (yeah, right . . . ), but if anyone hears it first a report would be most we...

Many thanks for the welcome, Voronwë, and thank you for creating this place for Tolkien fans to gather!

OK, I know that this thread is three years old, but I am coming late to the party . . . :-) The "Jackanory" version of "The Hobbit" was my first exposure to Tolkien, too. I was seven years old when it was broadcast in October 1979, and it literally changed my life: here I am, pos...

I was thinking more of Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" in citing his treatment of Men: I'm terribly sad to have to say that by the time we'd got to the stage of inventing whole characters purely in order to create a Dwarf-Elf love-triangle in "The Hobbit", I'd pretty much lost ...

Oh, absolutely: some of Jackson's work on "The Lord of the Rings" is just stunning, and my praise for someone who has brilliantly curbed his excesses should not distract from the fact that I loved these edits so much because they cleared away the clutter around the many wonderful moments t...

Thanks, Elentári! There is so much to praise here that I am finding it easier to list the very few things that I don't think work with this "Red Book" edit than to list everything that does work, and in almost all cases it is a fault with the source material -- there's only so much you can...

Greetings, everyone! First time poster but lifelong Tolkien obsessive here. I found this forum after a Google search on the subject of "Tolkien Fanedits", after a conversation with a friend where I was saying that there was so much to love about Peter Jackson's film of "The Lord of th...