The Hobbit (Novel) VO Demo Reading

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A reading from the first paragraph from the first chapter of J.R.R. Tolkein's, \"The Hobbit\".

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

British (General) North American (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
in a hole in the ground. There lived a hobbit, not a nasty, dirty, wet hole filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole, with nothing in it to sit down or to eat. It was a Hobbit hole, and that means comfort. It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened onto a tube shaped hall like a tunnel, a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with paneled walls and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs and lots and lots of pigs, fur hats and coats. The Hobbit was fond of visitors. You see the tunnel wound on and on going fairly, but not quite straight into the side of the hill. The hill, as all of the people for many miles around called it, and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for the Hobbit bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries, wardrobes, kitchens, dining rooms all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage. The best rooms were all on the left handed side, for these were the only ones to have windows, deep set round windows looking over his garden and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river