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Lost Recording of Tolkien Found

posted by n1 on Tuesday May 27 2014, @08:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-around-here-somewhere dept.

jbWolf writes:

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.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 28 2014, @02:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 28 2014, @02:45PM (#48331)

    Wow, trying to make money off of a "lost" record with "secrets" to LOTR. The joker trying to pull this stunt obviously missed the entire point of The Hobbit! I'm glad Tolkien didn't live to see this travesty. To think that someone would take his works and try to exploit them for money is nauseating ... oh, wait ... I forgot, they already did that with movies. Nevermind. Continue as usual. Anyone want a pizza roll?