Tolkien Reads from The Hobbit in Rare Archival Audio from His First Encounter with a Tape Recorder

"He was Gollum -- as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes." In this rare archival recording from that serendipitous summer evening, sixty-year-old Tolkien reads from The Hobbit, doing a magnificent impression of Gollum in the ancient accent he so loved — please enjoy...

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