Essential Tolkien

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Essential Tolkien is a CD audiobook which features a recording of J.R.R. Tolkien reading and singing prose, poems, and songs from The Hobbit and the unpublished manuscript of The Fellowship of the Ring (from the 1952 tape recording).

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 [[Image:essential_tolkien.jpg|right|Cover of ''Essential Tolkien''|300 px]]
-'''Essential Tolkien''' is a CD [[Audiobooks|audiobook]] which features a [[Audio recordings of J.R.R. Tolkien|recording]] of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] reading prose, poems, and songs from ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]''.
+'''Essential Tolkien''' is a CD [[Audiobooks|audiobook]] which features a [[Audio recordings of J.R.R. Tolkien|recording]] of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] reading and singing prose, poems, and songs from ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and the unpublished manuscript of ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (from the [[1952 tape recording]]).
-This audio is based on a tape that Tolkien made for his friends in August [[1952]]. Includes the poem "[[The Mirror of Galadriel (poem)|The Mirror of Galadriel]]", originally meant for inclusion in Book Two of ''The Fellowship of the Ring''.
 *Release: [[November 6|6th of November]] [[2007]]