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* Episode 6: "The Breaking of the Fellowship", [[December 18]], [[1955]]<ref name="RT1675">Radio Times, Volume 129, No. 1675, [[December 16]], [[1955]]</ref> | * Episode 6: "The Breaking of the Fellowship", [[December 18]], [[1955]]<ref name="RT1675">Radio Times, Volume 129, No. 1675, [[December 16]], [[1955]]</ref> | ||
;The Lord of the Rings | ;The Lord of the Rings | ||
* Episode 1: | * Episode 1: "Fangorn", [[November 19]], [[1956]]<ref name="RT1723">Radio Times, Volume 133, No. 1723, [[November 16]], [[1956]]</ref> | ||
* Episode 2: | * Episode 2: "Rohan and Isengard", [[November 26]], [[1956]]<ref name="RT1724">Radio Times, Volume 133, No. 1724, [[November 23]], [[1956]]</ref> | ||
* Episode 3: "Into the Dark", [[December 2]], [[1956]]<ref name="RT1725">Radio Times, Volume 133, No. 1725, [[November 30]], [[1956]]</ref> | * Episode 3: "Into the Dark", [[December 2]], [[1956]]<ref name="RT1725">Radio Times, Volume 133, No. 1725, [[November 30]], [[1956]]</ref> | ||
* Episode 4: [[December 9]], [[1956]]<ref name="RT1725"/> | * Episode 4: [[December 9]], [[1956]]<ref name="RT1725"/> | ||
* Episode 5: | * Episode 5: "Minas Tirith and Mount Doom", [[December 16]], [[1956]]<ref name="RT1727">Radio Times, Volume 133, No. 1727, [[December 14]], [[1956]]</ref> | ||
* Episode 6: | * Episode 6: [[December 23]], [[1956]]<ref name="RT1727"/> | ||
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|[[Mablung of Ithilien|Mablung]] || [[Godfrey Kenton]]<ref name="RT1725"/> | |[[Mablung of Ithilien|Mablung]] || [[Godfrey Kenton]]<ref name="RT1725"/> | ||
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|[[Éomer]] || [[Noel Johnson]]<ref name="RT1723"/> | |||
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|[[Treebeard]] || [[Valentine Dyall]]<ref name="RT1723"/> | |||
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|[[Théoden]] || [[Valentine Dyall]]<ref name="RT1724"/> | |||
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|[[Grima|Wormtongue]] || [[Bernard Rebel]]<ref name="RT1724"/> | |||
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|[[Saruman]] || [[Robert Farquharson]]<ref name="RT1724"/> | |||
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|Voice of [[Sauron]] || [[Felix Felton]]<ref name="RT1724"/> | |||
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|[[Eowyn]] || [[Olive Gregg]]<ref name="RT1727"/> | |||
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|[[Witch-king of Angmar|The Black Captain]] || [[Felix Felton]]<ref name="RT1727"/> | |||
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Revision as of 11:43, 11 April 2009
In 1955, the BBC Radio Third Programme aired a treatment of The Fellowship of the Ring in six episodes. A year later, six episodes on The Two Towers and The Return of the King followed. Though only the latter six episodes were called thus, the entire series has become known as the 1955 radio series of The Lord of the Rings.
Episodes
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- Episode 1: ?
- Episode 2: ?
- Episode 3: "Aragorn", November 29, 1955[1]
- Episode 4: "Many Meetings", December 4, 1955[2]
- Episode 5: "The Moria Gate", December 11, 1955[3]
- Episode 6: "The Breaking of the Fellowship", December 18, 1955[4]
- The Lord of the Rings
- Episode 1: "Fangorn", November 19, 1956[5]
- Episode 2: "Rohan and Isengard", November 26, 1956[6]
- Episode 3: "Into the Dark", December 2, 1956[7]
- Episode 4: December 9, 1956[7]
- Episode 5: "Minas Tirith and Mount Doom", December 16, 1956[8]
- Episode 6: December 23, 1956[8]
Cast
Adapted by Terence Tiller.[10] Music by Anthony Smith-Masters.[1]
Differences from the book
- Tom Bombadil: Considered by Tolkien "dreadful", though it is left unexplained why.[9]
- Goldberry: She is for some reason portrayed as Bombadil's daughter.[9]
- Willowman: He is shown in league with Mordor, rather than just an antagonist of the Hobbits.[9]
- Glóin: He was "someone's idea of a German". Tolkien thought he was not too bad, though a bit exaggerated.[11]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Radio Times, Volume 129, No. 1672, November 25, 1955
- ↑ Radio Times, Volume 129, No. 1673, December 2, 1955
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Radio Times, Volume 129, No. 1674, December 9, 1955
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Radio Times, Volume 129, No. 1675, December 16, 1955
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Radio Times, Volume 133, No. 1723, November 16, 1956
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Radio Times, Volume 133, No. 1724, November 23, 1956
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Radio Times, Volume 133, No. 1725, November 30, 1956
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Radio Times, Volume 133, No. 1727, December 14, 1956
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 J.R.R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 175 (dated November 30, 1955)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 193 (dated November 2, 1956)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 176 (dated December 8, 1955)