Reddit mentions of The Lord of the Rings (BBC Dramatization, Consumer Edition)

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-BBC-Dramatization-Consumer/dp/160283492X

This hands down! It's delightful, even though not being an audiobook (because dialogue was changed to suit the dramatization).

The BBC did do a killer radio adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" - 13 hours long and pretty faithful to the books. I recommend it.

Except for Tom Bombadil. In a burst of common sense he was deleted from the series :)

>Yes, they will, [find books and show] but only if he finishes the books.

I absolutely agree with this.

Tolkein ticks along nicely, his books are always on the shelves. Same with C S Lewis and his Narnia series. Each new generation seems to find them and treat them as something new.

BBC did a radio version of LOTR which was brilliant (I'm sure we've inherited the original cassettes somewhere) and then somebody did a cartoon/animated version, which was actually quite good, and along came Peter Jackson with the trilogy which launched a whole new load of fandom. Narnia has always been popular with children and adults and the series has been made into both film and TV.

Both these series were completed. Same, I suppose, with Harry Potter.

I can't see anybody bothering, in the future, to do a tv or film interpretation of GoT if Martin doesn't complete the books, especially if he dies without finishing them, because they'll always have to make up the ending.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/20-best-audiobooks-of-all-time/

>Peripheral sounds – thuds on the stairs, the roar of a Tube train – suggest the sensitivity to noise of the 15-year-old narrator with Asperger’s. Precursor of the acclaimed play.

You can have sound effects that books can't have.

>Man and dog drive across America in a pickup truck, taking soundings of the country’s mood at the dawn of the Sixties. Dialogue so sharp that Steinbeck was accused of making it up.

You can record stuff you do as in this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-Dramatization-Consumer-Edition/dp/160283492X

You can have voices that help in telling people apart, music, sound effects as in this.

http://www.booklistreader.com/2016/04/28/audiobooks/new-research-shows-audiobooks-have-powerful-impact-on-literacy-development/

Audiobooks have strong effects on enabling education of children with lower literacy.

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/edu/69/5/491/

There's similar retention of material for audiobooks and reading.

The BBC dramatization of LotR is excellent!

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-Dramatization-Consumer-Edition/dp/160283492X

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-Dramatization-Consumer-Edition/dp/160283492X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346448666&sr=8-1&keywords=bbc+lord+of+the+rings