Tolkien for the Time-Challenged

Who didn’t love the densely-woven cinematic tapestry which was the Lord of the Rings movies (over twelve hours in their entirety)? Who didn’t, in fact, spend some significant, yet delightful, portion of their adolescence reading the couple of thousand pages of source material from which they were comprised, leaving the Silmarillion out entirely?

And who, even among the adolescent, has that kind of time nowadays?

Fear not; your children needn’t be deprived of the joys of great literature, however rushed they may be in our contemporary whirl of activity. Great visionaries and futurists have always been among us, and foremost among them is the genius known as Leonard Nimoy. Long ago, in ancient times, he foresaw this dilemma, and brought all his formidable musical talent to bear on the problem, so that future generations might learn to love The Hobbit as much as past ones, all in under one minute, thirty-eight seconds.

Behold: The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins: