Phil Dragash Lord Of The Rings Audio Book Download
Jalisa Landgren
Ch. 1 - A Long-Expected Party The Fellowship of The RingThe Lord of The Rings Trilogy by J.R.R TolkienA Soundscape Audiobook by Phil DragashRoot & Twig StudiosFind more masterworks read as full production audiobooks at:
This creative work has been a wonderful experience, and I can't hardly bear that it's disappearing. Thank you for this. Why it must disappear, why something can't be worked out, it's a tragedy. But just the same, thank you, it's been terrific.
Let me be honest, Youtube took down this audiobook that was up for a bit but was already invested in finishing the audio so.. here we are. Thank you for your beyond incredible mastery of producing these, im ever so grateful. ?
if you first download the app. Then go onto Google, type in listen to audiobook of Root and Twigg lord of the rings. The link comes up on screen. Click on link, then it opens the app automatically, then it shows every single chapter from all 3 books
I can't believe anyone can do such a spender job, i personally thought Stephen Fry is the world's best narrator, but after listening to you, I think you can give very good competition to the legend like him
edit 2: I wonder if I knew the Jim Dale version was sold in the US, heard the first little "This is Audible" and turned it right off. What a tremendous error. Though I do so love the Fry versions, so not a loss really...
My favorite narrators are Michael Kramer and Kate Reading - either Kramer solo, or as the Kramer/Reading duo for multi-narrator books. They've become the primary narrators for Brandon Sanderson, with Kramer handling the Mistborn books and the pair of them doing Stormlight.
Brandon chose them for his work specifically because of their work on WoT. He Alsop got them to agree on how characters' names are pronounced, which they notably didn't for WoT. I might excuse that if they lived thousands of miles apart or something like that, but they're married to each other.
Neil Gaiman narrates a lot of his own books, and he's got an exceptional voice. It's also nice knowing that the speaker is perfectly following the author's intentions, because they're the same person.
I'd say that's not a given. Much how a great writer might not be a great public speaker, talents show through in different ways. Being a great novellist doesn't make you a great scriptwriter. Being a great scriptwriter doesn't make you a great actor. And reading audiobooks is more acting and less writing.
Stephen King does a good job narrarating his own work. But Frank Muller was masterful, possibly one of the best. Having direct comparisons shows a stark difference...Frank shows an incredible depth of character voices, and adjusting pacing and tone with tension that King himself can't match.
That was unfortunately my experience when I started to read the first Dresden book. They've been recommended a lot but after listening for about a half hour I couldn't stop hearing it. Maybe it's "just a part of the character" but there's a lot of other books I can read where I don't have to listen to that.
I had a couple I was going to recommend that I recently went through and liked (Project Hail Mary which was significantly elevated in audiobook form vs paper, and the Bobiverse books)... then I checked and saw they were Ray Porter >.>
I'm currently listening to the Andy Serkis narrations of Lord of the Rings, and so far it has made the opening bits of Fellowship, which I find interminable when trying to read myself, downright pleasant.
The version of Dune that was read by a whole cast of people, with the main narrator being Simon Vance. It is the version that I had listened to, the performance that the cast had done was really good. It just brought the book to life, verses of it was just one narrator doing the reading.
Second this, it really helped my wife differentiate all the characters, the chapters where it just went to the narrator was always jarring though, wish they could have used the cast throughout the book.
World War Z is one of my go-to audiobook recommendations for anything, period. it's structured as "an oral history of the zombie war", and the audiobook version has an incredible ensemble cast (the author is Mel Brooks' son so he has a ton of Hollywood connections).
Andy Weir's Artemis isn't as good as The Martian or Project Hail Mary (in particular, Weir is not good at writing female protagonists) but the audiobook version was narrated by Rosario Dawson who I thought did a wonderful job with it.
World War Z is also really good without the audio version, it is one of my favorite books that I had read. The way that it is structured is such an interesting way of telling a story, especially a zombie book. Because it talks about the survivors and the shit that they went through to just to survive.
There is a astronaut survived that was up in orbit, which was really refreshing in a way. The reason being we really don't see that in other books, tv shows or movies (even the movie version of the book). It also talks about the post zombie world, albeit in not that much detail.
George Guidall is great in everything he reads. His rendition of Dune is spot on, though old so it has some pops and cracks in the audio. It does mean you don't need to listen to the weird Simon Vance/Scott Brick version though. He's also a perfect fit for the gunslinger (Dark Tower anthology).
I'll second Jefferson Mays. He did a great job of changing his inflection enough for different characters that you knew who was talking but not so much that it veered in a bad place that takes me out of the book. Basically, I need him to do more books but his reading of the Expanse is perfect.
When he was just getting started it was hard. Red Shirts is a hard listen, especially since 2 of the main character have pretty similar sounding names. There was one scene where Dahl and Duvall were talking back and forth for like 50 lines and my ears did the equivillent of defocusings your eyes, Wil was just straight monotone Wil saying
My first book narrated by R.C. Bray was Columbus Day, and at first I thought I wouldn't like his narration style, or the writing of Craig Alanson, too much "Huuahh" for my liking. But after getting a bit further into book, I've realised that in both cases it was just an excellent depiction of how the main character thinks and talks. Other, and especially non-military, characters are both written and narrated drastically different. Made me appreciate both author and narrator much more!
I've mentioned this before, but it deserves repeating - The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson read by the late David Warner. Here we have one of the cornerstone works of a quietly influential and brilliant author narrated by a classically trained stage and screen actor (who passed away days after I finished listening. It was eerie.). The setting descriptions have a resonance because of his performance. It was chilling, a real listening experience. Anyone who might be turned off because of the more recent adaptations (Current Netflix and c.2000 film adaptation) - listen to the OG. It's the kind of subtle scary that creeps up on you and disappears without a trace rather than the kind that jump-scares you into indifference.
Marc Thompson doing any of Zahn's work is exceptional. I'm also a sucker for Simon Vance, even though with some performances you can hear traffic in the background. He can also get like Porter where Bond and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / Millennium trilogy blend.
I like John Lee in general but when he reads Alastair Reynolds books it's a very good match. He narrates mosy of Reynolds' books but not Revenger etc, which is good because I don't think he would have fit the tone.
Such a phenomenal job, to this day my favourite narration performance. His performance is also a big part of the reason why I couldn't get into the TV adaptation. The vocal performances, accent choices etc. were just a huge downgrade after having listened to all of the books that had been released by the time the first episode of the TV series aired.
Hard agree. Not sure how he does it but he goes from Martian neo-Texan to beltah pidgin to an older Indian woman seamlessly. There are so many different voices with unique regional accents and none of them seem forced. Really enjoyed the audiobooks and his reading was a big part of that. Though hearing him say "Oh hell yes" makes you realize how often that phrase shows up.
Heath Miller does an amazing job with the He Who Fights with Monsters LitRPG series by Shirtaloon. I don't yet have any other books that he's narrated yet, but I definitely look forward to any he does.
Say what you will about some of the flaws of the book itself, but the narration of Neil Stephenson's Seveneves was well done by Mary Robinette Kowal and Will Damron. Anathem and Diamond Age also have good audio books. I've just recently started listening to Baroque Cycle so no room to comment there yet (and I only read Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon in paper form).
World War Z's audio book is quite well done with a cast of people, it's just unfortunate that the audio book is heavily abridged and hence loses out significantly to the paper book. Still better than that abomination of a movie though...
I'm a huge fan of Sack's book the Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat as an introduction to neurological disorders and the practice of neurology for people who don't have medical background. However I know nothing about the audiobook quality
I really enjoyed "Infinite Jest" as narrated by Sean Pratt. It is such a journey of a book, and I absolutely think he enhanced it for me. He made the funny parts more funny, and the tender parts more heartfelt.
The only tricky thing - I'm not sure if they have resolved this in another edition, but the endnotes were in a separate audiobook. So I was bouncing back and forth.
It made it rougher, but was worth it. One endnote in particular was probably one of my favorite narrated parts in the whole book.