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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: 2, Interesting) by jbWolf on Wednesday May 28 2014, @03:56AM
I'm the submitter of the article.
I should point out that although there is interesting background information about the dinner from 1958 in the blog, there is also a lot of fluff from Smith. The title of the blog piece is "J.R.R. Tolkien Reveals TRUE Meaning Of 'The Lord Of The Rings' In Unearthed Audio Recording". When Smith never elaborates about it in the blog itself other than to say "wait and see", it was enough to make me gag. I just wanted to give y'all a heads up on that. I tried to include the most important stuff in the summary. Most of the blog is about the dinner.
Oh... and I want to thank the editor n1 and anyone else who edited my summary. I know I had a couple of small rough edges in the submission that I wished I could have gone back and fixed after I submitted. Y'all did that for me. Thank you! I appreciate the work all of the editors are doing on a regular basis.
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