![]() So let’s say we are all very young again and there is The Return of the King playing in the VCR in my living room. You have no choice but to watch whatever makes its way to your home. The Return of the King is exactly the kind of tape ol’ pops would have brought home to his kids, whenever he could remember that he’d already checked out Encino Man a million times before. People who were kids in that decade know the scenario: your parents come home in the evening, one of them grabbing a random VHS from the rental store. This was done out of practicality - The Return of the King DVD was the first used copy I found in the area - and also to attempt recreating the ’80s home movie experience. I watched the last movie of the animated Lord of the Rings trilogy first for this article. The story is pure magic.On this edition of “Watching Series,” we take a look at the three loosely connected animated Tolkien movies from the late 1970s: The Hobbit (1977), The Lord of the Rings (1978), and The Return of the King (1980). ![]() I cannot sing a lick in tune but hey I would have pushed HARD for a professional singer to take over this task. This ended up being a joke that was taken way way too far. Yes I understand that Ents speak in a slow and deliberate basso voice but my goodness this idea was taken 70,000 Ent strides too far. The twig that broke the camels back was the Treebeard dialogue. Gimli the dwarf is the loudest & most irritating Scotsman I could ever conjure. The gutteral Orc speech is way over the top. I hear Aragorn as a much more forceful character than this Narrator provides. ![]() My criticism involves the following: Aragorn 'whispers' or speaks with a downward breathy tone that to me sounds very undecided or morose. I chose this version based on stellar reviews and was looking forward to this performance. I love Tolkien & it is hard for me to admit defeat but this audio book was not my cup of mead.
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