Younger The Lord of the Rings fans sometimes find it difficult to believe that before Peter Jackson’s cinema trilogy, others had already adopted JRR Tolkien’s fantasy template. Thanks to WDR, you can hear the proof in the ARD audio library today: A four-hour The Hobbit radio play takes fans there to Middle-earth.
21 years before the Lord of the Rings films: stream 8 episodes of the fantasy epic for free
In 8 episodes you can hear the dangerous and touching journey of Bilbo Baggins (Horst Bollmann), Gandalf (Bernhard Minetti) and their dwarven friends to the Lonely Mountain, where they reach their destination encounter the nefarious dragon Smaug (Benno Kusche).
Check out the trailer for Peter Jackson’s first The Hobbit film here:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Trailer (German) HD
There are a total of four hours of fantasy adventures until January 24th exclusively in the ARD audio library. The German radio play dates from 1980 and was directed by Heinz Dieter Köhler and Christoph Pragua.
If you would like more information about the cast or an overview of the most important characters, you can find out more on the WDR website. The radio play adaptation came just a few years after the 1978 animated Lord of the Rings film.
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