Summary: "This film tells the story of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, English writer, poet, philologist and author of many stories, including most famously The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It describes the importance of the rural English West Midlands, where Tolkien grew up, in shaping his literary imagination and how the ancient northern languages he studied and taught throughout his life influenced...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV J.R.R.Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: Bilbo Baggins, a middle-aged hobbit, reluctantly agrees to participate in an adventure with a band of Dwarves who seek to relaim their stolen treasure from an unpleasant Dragon named Smaug.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1991
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Tolkien 1991Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC TOLTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: In the second volume of the trilogy, the fellowship has been forced to split up in order to destroy the ring and fight the first battle of the War of the ring.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1990
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SA TOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction TolTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: The first volume in the trilogy, tells of the fateful power of the One ring. All the members of the fellowship, hobbits, elves and wizards, are plunged into a clash between good and evil.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 1990
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDA FICTION TolTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: Frodo Baggins and his companion Sam Gamgee, set off along the same road down which Bilbo the Hobbit had accompanied Thorin Oakenshield and his dwarves all those years ago. Much danger and many strange encounters await them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC TOLTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: The little hobbit and his trusty companion make a terrible journey to the heart of the land of the Shadow in a final reckoning with the power of Sauron.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1990