by J.R.R. Tolkien
Prepared for radio in 26 episodes by Brian Sibley
[Starring] Ian Holm as Frodo, Michael Hordern as Gandalf, Robert Stephens
as Aragorn, William Nighy as Sam, Peter Woodthorpe as Gollum, Richard O'Callaghan as Merry, John McAndrew as Pippin, Douglas Livingstone as Gimli, David Collings as Legolas and Gerard Murphy as the Narrator

'I have come' said Frodo. 'But I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!' And suddenly, as he set it on his finger, he vanished from Sam's sight. Sam gasped, but he had no chance to cry out, for at that moment many things happened.

(Gerard Murphy is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

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