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A lost audio recording of J.R.R. Tolkien giving a speech from the March 28th, 1958 "Hobbit Dinner" in Rotterdam is being restored and will be released later this year. Noble Smith claims to have heard the recording and gives more background details and hints at more secrets to be revealed.
According to Smith, we will get to hear Tolkien himself reading a poem in Elvish and then again in English. The recording was actually found over 20 years ago by Rene van Rossenberg (who knew what he had) but kept it hidden from the world during that time. Why? "Like Smaug I am guarding my treasure, hissing at any collector who comes near." A brief teaser can be heard in a YouTube video found on both sites.
The Smith blog also claims that Tolkien's meaning of Lord of the Rings is also revealed in the recording, but gives no details as to what this means.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 27 2014, @09:49PM
> it was Tolkien (and others) that helped put meat on how to be a decent human being
In a related vein, those books are full of all sorts of courtly language, where characters may speak their minds, but in a careful, respectful, and exceedingly polite way. I've always felt great respect for this way of communicating, and yet in situations calling for this skill, I always fail to say the correct thing. My good intentions are belied by my lack of eloquence.