Popular songs, epic battles and evocative elven languages: from next May 7th, the immense fantasy world of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first chapter of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, will be available on Audible – an Amazon company among the major players in the production and distribution of quality audio entertainment (audiobooks, podcasts and audio series). Massimo Popolizio’s voice will bring the epic characters that populate the audiobook back to life for everyone, born from the book published by Bompiani and translated by Ottavio Fatica
The task for those who interpret audiobooks is to give the listener images to keep in their imagination. A sound film that makes the characters credible and the colors of the scenes vivid. In short, let the listener discover new elements. The voice, naturally, becomes a fundamental element in this imaginative process.
Massimo Popolizio commented after the recording of the first volume.
Since 1954 The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien’s monumental trilogy, offers profound reflections and interesting points of view on friendship, courage and the struggle between good and evil through the journey of Frodo Baggins and his companions towards Mordor. Extraordinary trials and unexpected dangers, epic battles and decisive encounters make Frodo’s journey one of the most famous and memorable Hero’s journeys in literature of all time. Legend and fairy tale, tragedy and chivalric poem, Tolkien’s novel is actually an allegory of the human condition that re-proposes ancient myths in a modern key.
To listen to the voices of this polyphonic audiobook, Audible invites lovers of audio entertainment to the XXXVI edition of the International Book Fair scheduled in Turin from 9 to 13 May at Lingotto Fiere. On May 12th at 3.30 pm, at the Bookstock Arena (PAD. 4), Middle-earth will be recreated at the Salone thanks to a live reading by Massimo Popolizio. The actor, together with the writer Vanni Santoni, will reflect, and make listeners reflect, on the universal themes underlying the work. The audiobook “The Fellowship of the Ring – The Lord of the Rings part 1” by JRR Tolkien, narrated by Massimo Popolizio, will be available on Audible.it starting from 7 May.
Audible, in recent times, has been focusing a lot on this type of audiobooks: we remember the excellent work done with The Sandman, the Marvel Westerlanders saga and, soon, also a new version of the Harry Potter audiobooks, this time with the characters interpreted by different actors and not just narrated by a single interpreter.
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