More than 40 years ago, The Lord of the Rings had a series of 26 episodes in radio format. And you can listen to it for free

The universe of The Lord of the Rings It has been accompanying us for many decades. Of the different adaptations that have been carried out During all this time, it is likely that for many the best known is the live-action films directed by Peter Jackson, although there are also those who have only read the books or prefer to keep the memory of these novels written by JRR Tolkien. , without forgetting that it even came to exist an animated film that was released in 1978

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Beyond all this, there is another adaptation that probably is not so familiar to you, given that some of us or those of you who read us were not even born. We talk about a radio program broadcast by the BBC in 1981 in which he took as a basis the texts of the famous books of this fantasy world to leave us with a series of stories that could be considered one of the most faithful adaptations that have come to exist.

Such is the case that the original dialogues and other details that the films preferred to pass for something or were directly modified in order to make these feature films more spectacular were respected. Behind them were the writers Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell, those in charge of the script for this entire plot that was divided into a total of 26 different episodeseach one with its own narrative structure and ending with a perfect cliffhanger to make you want to not miss the next one.

The broadcast remained on the air for six months, although for those responsible was a great challenge because the pace at which these chapters had to go in radio format could not be the same as that of the original novels that focus too much on describing even the smallest detail of the settings or their characters. Therefore, despite being a very faithful adaptation, some parts had to be omitted, although others were left that, if you have only seen the films, you will not even know.

So, there are more than enough reasons for you to give it a chance if you feel like listening to them or playing the episodes in the background, since in Archive.org

you have them all in full and free. Also, as a detail, a very young Ian Holm (the actor of Bilbo in Peter Jackson’s original trilogy) was responsible for voicing the character of Frodo. Of course, they are only available in their original version in English, so it is essential that you master Shakespeare’s language to perfectly understand everything they say.

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