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2001 The Tolkien Audio Collection
Release Date: 2001.10.02
Reader: JRR & Christopher Tolkien
Language: English
Organisation: Caedemon Records
Catalog: HCCD 21
ISBN: 9780694525706
Duration: ~4 hours
Unabridged: n/a
Country: USA
Licenced: Yes
Formats: CD & Digital
HarperCollins (having acquired the rights to the Caedmon Tolkien archives) undertook a significant remastering project to clean up the 1952 Malvern recordings’ tape hiss and the pops of the 1970s master tapes – ie all of the material previously released separately and then together in 1977 JRR Tolkien Soundbook / Collection.
This release was timed to coincide with the global excitement for Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). The set included a new, revised booklet with updated notes on the 1952 Malvern sessions, clarifying the George Sayer history for a new generation. While the content is the same as the Soundbook, the track indexing on the CD version is much more granular.
| CD1 | Title | Time |
|---|---|---|
| The Hobbit | ||
| 1 | The Hobbit – Chapter 5: Riddles In The Dark | 29:49 |
| The Fellowship of the Ring | ||
| 2 | Chapter I: A Long Expected Party: The Old Walking Song | 0:17 |
| 3 | Chapter II: The Shadow Of The Past: Verse Of The Rings | 0:52 |
| 4 | Chapter III: Three Is Company: A Walking Song | 1:01 |
| 5 | Chapter III: Three Is Company “Snow White! Snow White!” | 0:38 |
| 6 | Chapter V: A Conspiracy Unmasked: The Basked Song | 0:42 |
| 7 | Chapter V: A Conspiracy Unmasked: Farewell Song Of Merry & Pippin | 0:28 |
| 8 | Chaprer VI: The Old Forest “Hey! Come Merry Dol!” | 0:38 |
| 9 | Chapter VI: The Old Forest “Hop Along, My Little Friends” | 0:21 |
| 10 | Chapter X: At The Sign Of The Prancing Pony “There Is An Inn, A Merry Old Inn…” | 1:53 |
| 11 | Chapter XI: A Knife In The Dark: The Fall Of Gil-Galad | 0:25 |
| 12 | Chapter XI: A Knife In The Dark: Song Of Beren And Luthien | 3:06 |
| 13 | Chapter XII: Flight To The Ford: Sam’s Rhyme Of The Troll | 2:36 |
| 14 | Chapter I: Many Meetings “They Got Up And Withdrew Quietly” | 0:31 |
| 15 | Chapter IV: A Journey In The Dark: Song Of Durin | 1:43 |
| 16 | Chapter VI: Lothlorien: Song Of Nimrodel | 1:43 |
| 17 | Chapter VII: The Mirror Of Galadriel: Frodo’s Lament For Gandalf | 0:58 |
| 18 | Chapter VIII: Farewell To Lorien. Galadriel’s Song Of Eldamar, Namarie Alatriello Naine, Loreindesse (Galadriel’s Lament In Lorien) – Spoken Version | 0:48 |
| CD2 | The Two Towers | |
| 1 | Chapter I: The Departure of Boromir: Lament For Boromir | 2:39 |
| 2 | Chapter IV: Treebeard: The Long List of the Ents | 1:20 |
| 3 | Chapter IV: Treebeard: Treebeard’s Song | 1:15 |
| 4 | Chapter IV: Treebeard: The Ent, And The Ent-Wife | 2:15 |
| 5 | Chapter IV: Treebeard: Bregalad’s Song | 0:43 |
| 6 | Chapter IV: Treebeard: The Ent’s Marching Song | 1:09 |
| 7 | Chapter VI: The King of the Golden Hall: Lament For Rohirrim | 0:37 |
| 8 | Chapter VI: The King of the Golden Hall: Gandalf’s Song of Lorien | 0:25 |
| 9 | Chapter II: The Passage Of The Marshes: Gollum’s Song | 0:57 |
| 10 | Chapter III: The Black Gate Is Closed: Oliphaunt | 0:57 |
| 11 | Chapter IV: Of Herbs And Stewed Rabbit “A Little Way Back Along The Lake | 7:39 |
| The Return of the King | ||
| 12 | Chapter III: The Muster Of Rohan: Lament For Theoden | 1:07 |
| 13 | Chapter V: The Ride Of The Rohirrim “Then Since We Must Look For Fell Deeds” | 8:41 |
| 14 | Chapter VI: The Battle of the Pelennor Fields, Song for the Mounds of Mundberg | 1:36 |
| 15 | Chapter III: Mount Doom “There At The Bend It Was Cut Deep” | 7:09 |
| 16 | Chapter V: The Steward And The King: The Eagle King | 0:47 |
| The Fellowship of the Ring | ||
| 17 | Chapter VIII: Farewell To Lorien (Galadriel’s Lament In Lorien) – Sung Version | 1:27 |
| 18 | Chapter 1: Many Meetings A Elbereth Githoniel! (From The Tom Bombadil Session) | 0:16 |
| 19 | Chapter VIII: Farewell To Lorien (Galadriel’s Lament In Lorien) – Alternate Spoken Version (From The Tom Bombadil Session) | 1:05 |
| The Adventures of Tom Bombadil | ||
| 20 | “Old Tom Bombadil…” | 6:53 |
| 21 | Errantry | 2:54 |
| 22 | Princess Mee | 1:37 |
| 23 | The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon | 3:41 |
| 24 | Perry-The-Winkle | 4:27 |
| 25 | The Mewlips | 1:26 |
| 26 | The Hoard | 3:34 |
| 27 | The Sea-Bells | 5:16 |
| CD3 | The Silmarillion: Of Beren and Lúthien | |
| 1 | The story tells that after the battle in which Morgoth… | 1:34 |
| 2 | Then there came a time near dawn on the eve of spring… | 10:30 |
| 3 | The story tells that Beren, leaving… | 8:11 |
| 4 | In the time when Sauron cast Beren into the pit… | 3:18 |
| 5 | The story tells that Huan found Lúthien… | 7:52 |
| 6 | The story tells that Huan returned to… | 35:15 |
| 7 | It is said that Beren and Lúthien returned… | 1:32 |
| CD4 | The Silmarillion: Of the Darkening of Valinor | |
| 1 | When Manwë heard of the ways that Melkor had taken…. | 11:44 |
| 2 | So the great darkness fell upon Valinor…. | 2:47 |
| The Silmarillion: Of the Flight of the Noldor | ||
| 3 | After a time a great concourse gathered about the Ring of Doom… | 14:40 |
| 4 | Now when it was known that Morgoth had escaped from Valinor… | 13:52 |
| 5 | Now Feanor led the Noldor northward…. | 17:40 |