Needless to say it made hm sound rather campy. In the NPR playhouse version he was voiced by Tom Luce with a rather annoying echo effect added. ![]() One thing I like about this version is that it stays more or less true to the characters as described in the book, which the films didn't always do. ![]() And of course it's far better than the films, as good as those admittedly were. Granted I do still somewhat enjoy that one, but after hearing this one I must conclude that it' is far superior. But as I said it was a much better version than the NPR Playhouse version. And even then I wasn't aware of the anniversary edition which added the opening and closing narrations by Frodo. As I said I wasn't made aware of the BBC's dramatization of Lord of the Rings until 2001, twenty years after its initial release.
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