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The Hobbit
A timeline of all known readings and dramatizations. Always happy to hear about productions that have been missed off the list 🙂
Dates of January 1st indicate that the exact day of the year is not known.
Lost. No known recordingsJanuary 4, 1961
Lost. No known recordingsOctober 5, 1961
Michael Kilgarriff’s 8 part dramatizationSeptember 29, 1968
HobbittenJanuary 1, 1972
Argo produced abridged reading January 1, 1974
Library of Congress unabridged reading. Year unconfirmedJanuary 1, 1976
Library of Congress unabridged reading January 1, 1978
Bernard Mayes’s amateur production for NPRJanuary 1, 1979
BBC television story readingOctober 1, 1979
Der HobbitDecember 21, 1980
HobitJanuary 1, 1989
Hobitti eli sinne ja takaisinJanuary 1, 1990
Recorded Books produced unabridged reading January 1, 1991
January 6, 1992
Michael Hordern Reading
BBC produced abridged English reading
January 6, 1992
May 24, 1993
Martin Shaw Reading
HarperCollins produced abridged English reading
May 24, 1993
January 1, 1995
Knut Røe Reading
Hobbiten
Billingstad produced unabridged Norwegian reading
January 1, 1995
March 16, 1996
Český Rozhlas Dramatization
Hobit
Czech radio production
March 16, 1996
January 1, 1999
Rune T Kidde Reading
Hobbitten
CMC Records produced abridged Danish reading
January 1, 1999
January 1, 2001
Carol Jordan Stewart Reading
Library of Congress unabridged English reading
January 1, 2001
November 1, 2001
Tomas Norström Reading
Bilbo – En hobbits äventyr
Pan Audio produced Swedish unabridged reading
November 1, 2001
January 1, 2003
Jan Vondráček Reading
Hobit
Supraphon produced abridged Czech reading
January 1, 2003
January 1, 2004
Jan Meng Reading
De Hobbit
Rubinstein produced unabridged Dutch reading
January 1, 2004
March 5, 2008
Gert Heidenreich Reading
Der Hobbit
Der Hörverlag produced unabridged German reading
March 5, 2008
March 14, 2008
Jan Waldekranz Reading
Hobbiten
Norstedts produced unabridged Swedish reading
March 14, 2008
July 21, 2010
Torben Sekov Reading
Hobbitten
Gyldendal produced unabridged Danish reading
July 21, 2010
November 7, 2012
Dominique Pinon Reading
Le Hobbit
Audiolib produced unabridged French reading
November 7, 2012
December 6, 2012
Jóhann Sigurðarson Reading
Hobbitinn
Perception produced unabridged Icelandic reading
December 6, 2012
November 25, 2013
Vladimir Kudla Reading
Hobit
Tympanum produced unabridged Czech reading
November 25, 2013
January 1, 2019
Bluefax Theatrical Audiobook
Independently produced theatrical reading
January 1, 2019
November 25, 2019
Attila Kaszás Reading
A Hobbit
Mojzer Publishing produced unabridged Hungarian reading
November 25, 2019
September 3, 2020
Andy Serkis Reading
HarperCollins produced unabridged English reading
September 3, 2020
November 10, 2022
Jordi Boixaderas Reading
El Hòbbit
Penguin Random House Audio produced Spanish (Catalan) reading
November 10, 2022
HobitMay 16, 2023
June 5, 2023
Dušan Zincota Reading
Hobit
Slovart produced unabridged Slovakian reading
June 5, 2023
July 10, 2023
Javier Gutiérrez Reading
El Hobbit
Planeta Audio produced unabridged Spanish (Castilian) reading
July 10, 2023
July 10, 2023
Miguel Angel Jenner Reading
El Hobbit
Planeta Audio produced unabridged Spanish reading
July 10, 2023
January 15, 2024
Jorge Tito Gómez Cabrera Reading
El Hobbit
Minotauro produced unabridged Spanish (Latinoamérica) reading
January 15, 2024
March 31, 2025
Riccardo Ricobello Reading
Lo Hobbit
Bompiani produced unabridged Italian reading
March 31, 2025