Written by J.R.R. Tolkien - Audio book performed by full cast - Original Radio Show Dramatization - Fiction - 3 COMPACT DISCS - 3.5 hours

Publisher, HighBridge Audio (April 2002)

The Original American Production

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This performance is the acclaimed American production broadcast on National Public Radio (NPR)---fully dramatized, complete with music and sound effects, and digitally remastered.

The Fellowship is broken; the quest to destroy the Ring seems already shrouded in disaster. But as the evil lord Sauron readies his armies for war, Frodo and Sam continue their lonely journey toward Mordor, guided only by Gollum--a deceitful and tortured creature, helplessly in thrall to the Ring's dark power.