Finishing The Lord of the Rings in audiobook format with the songs removed/replaced.
It’s amazing how much better the story is for me with Rob Inglis’ singing removed. Inglis’ renditions are grating and tiresome. I really did enjoy the story quite a bit, but I think Tolkien inserting umpteen pages of song lyrics into the plot breaks the flow and is unnecessary. It would have been better to put the lyrics in the appendix than to insert them in the story itself.
I never had the patience for Tolkien. He’s far too meandering.