| Title | Lost Recording of Tolkien Found | |
| Date | Tuesday May 27 2014, @08:11PM | |
| Author | n1 | |
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| from the it's-around-here-somewhere dept. | ||
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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