This version omitted the original episode divisions, and included a new opening and closing monologues for the first two sets, and an opening monologue only for the last, written by Sibley and performed by Ian Holm as Frodo Baggins.
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In 2002, following the success of Jackson's movies, the BBC reissued the series in three sets corresponding to the three original volumes ( The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King).
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Ian Holm, who voiced Frodo Baggins in the radio serial, went on to play Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's movie trilogy. Peter Woodthorpe ( Gollum/Sméagol) and Michael Graham Cox ( Boromir) previously voiced the same roles in Ralph Bakshi's animated version. Links to other The Lord of the Rings productions
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The first broadcast of Episode 2 was blacked out across a large part of southeast England because of a transmitter failure (a very rare occurrence even then). Each episode was repeated on the following Wednesday from 10:30pm to 11:00pm. The serial was originally broadcast from 8 March to 30 August 1981 on BBC Radio 4 on Sundays from 12 Noon to 12:30pm. 3 Links to other The Lord of the Rings productions.Like the novel on which it is based, The Lord of the Rings is the story of an epic struggle between the Dark Lord Sauron of Mordor, the primary villain of the work, and an alliance of heroes who join forces to save the world from falling under his shadow.
The novel had previously been adapted as a 12-part BBC Radio adaptation in 19 (of which no recordings are known to have survived), and a 1979 production by The Mind's Eye for National Public Radio in the USA. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in 26 half-hour stereo installments. In 1981 BBC Radio 4 produced a dramatisation of J.