![]() Serkis then decides to "dramatize" his already full voice acting. How am I supposed to follow the story when Aragorn now sounds like Batman? It gets worse. What we end up with are cartoon characters with different accents. The most disturbing part of this is how it illustrates his complete lack of self awareness: he has zero voice acting talent in a live reading setting. It's impossible to listen to and loses Tolkien. The way Serkis reads this it appears he thinks that every word only implies excitement or suspense. Words imply meaning - at least to Tolkien and myself. This abomination seems to be an attempt to dramatize every word that Tolkien wrote. Not tearing each other apart over which narrator was better. Tolkien fans who enjoy his actual words should be supportive of each other. Don't we have enough controversy with the new Rings of Power series without adding to it by arguing who reads the definitive text better? Please quit arguing over this. I love both readings because they are both the original text with different interpretations. If you like one reader then listen to them. Criticism for one reader over another seems counter productive. I have enjoyed each for different reasons. I have personally enjoyed both readings of the original text. Tolkien fans should feel exceptionally blessed for having multiple interpretations to choose from. Every narrator is going to have their own interpretation on any given story. I come back to it because I am disconcerted by all the comparisons between this and the Rob Inglis performance. Thank you for this masterpiece of narration. ![]() My mother read these books to me while I was still in the womb, and 56 years later the story remains an essential, vital part of my life. That's some of the highest praise I could ever pay anyone. ![]() The only narrators I can think of who would be anywhere near this performance would be Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee, or Cate Blanchett, and they wouldn't be better. I'm not finished with these new releases yet, but so far I have not one single complaint to make. He's one of the finest actors of his generation. I knew instantly he would be brilliant, and I was not mistaken. However, when I heard that Andy Serkis was doing a new narration of what I consider some of the finest books ever written in the English language, I just about died. I own the Rob Inglis narration, and he did quite a decent job. ![]()
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