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MalevolentRhinoceros t1_j21k526 wrote

Reply to comment by sonsoflarson in Audiobook performers have set the bar too high. by Thatoneguy0311

Andy Serkis narrates all 3 volumes of LOTR, plus The Hobbit, and he goes hard on it.

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I also just finished The Hunger Games audiobooks, and Tatiana Maslany does an excellent job with it. Unfortunately, I'm seeing that she's only done two other books outside the trilogy.

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PaulBradley t1_j21nz4v wrote

Andy Serkis singing is like a kick in the balls everytime, it's so bad. He's really good at the action sequences though.

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rocima t1_j21vwzk wrote

His singing is truely ghastly ‐ like frogs being grated on fingernails. I now fast forward through all the songs ‐ a great pity as I love them in the books: they were the first poems I memorised as a teenager.

I started off being enthusiastic about his reading but now, halfway through the Fellowship, I am getting a bit tired of all his regional brit accents, though I like his "normal" voice when he's doing plain narrative,.

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PaulBradley t1_j21wtgx wrote

Oh no. I'd blocked out the people from Gondor having Liverpudlian accents. It's truly horrific.

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PaulBradley t1_j21wytq wrote

Faramir sounds like Craig Charles.

I love Craig Charles. But he's not my first pick for Faramir.

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the_dolomite t1_j26g67u wrote

You might check out the version recorded by Rob Inglis in 1990, I think he does a great job with the songs.

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