But any reading I do of The Lord of the Rings is almost entirely filtered through the BBC radio adaptation, which I heard on broadcast, at around the same time as reading the book for the first time. The two are very closely linked in my imagination.
Ah yes, I recorded them onto cassettes as they were broadcast! But then, to my shame, when I went away to university and wanted some tapes of my favourite albums, I couldn't afford to buy new cassettes, so recorded over LOTR instead. The result was that throughout my undergraduate career, if ever I let a tape run on past the end of the music, I'd catch the last few minutes of whichever of the 26 episodes happened to be on it. I got to know those last few minuteses (my precious) very well.
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Date: 2009-06-19 05:35 pm (UTC)Ah yes, I recorded them onto cassettes as they were broadcast! But then, to my shame, when I went away to university and wanted some tapes of my favourite albums, I couldn't afford to buy new cassettes, so recorded over LOTR instead. The result was that throughout my undergraduate career, if ever I let a tape run on past the end of the music, I'd catch the last few minutes of whichever of the 26 episodes happened to be on it. I got to know those last few minuteses (my precious) very well.