Audiobooks narrated by Andy Serkis

Recorded The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, having already played Gollum: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings came out in 2020-21 and The Silmarillion in 2023. More dramatic than the older readings, and the version the UK store leads with.

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2 series · 7 recording comparisons

Best known for

• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Silmarillion
• Small Gods

Series Andy Serkis appears in

We do not list individual books for these: each is either shared between narrators or includes titles that are not in Andy Serkis’s recordings, and we hold one narrator credit per series rather than per volume. We would rather say so than guess which titles are which.

• The Lord of the Rings and Middle-earth in orderJ.R.R. Tolkien · 5 books · Andy Serkis (released 2020–23), or the older readings: Rob Inglis for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Martin Shaw for The Silmarillion
• Discworld in orderTerry Pratchett · 42 books · One lead actor per sub-series in the current recordings — Jon Culshaw for the City Watch, Indira Varma for the Witches and the Tiffany Aching books, Colin Morgan for Rincewind and the wizards, Sian Clifford for Death, Richard Coyle for Moist von Lipwig — and a different lead on each standalone, with Bill Nighy on the footnotes and, on most of the books, Peter Serafinowicz as Death; A Blink of the Screen is read by Michael Fenton Stevens and Stephen Briggs

Where Andy Serkis is one of the choices

Books sold as more than one recording, with Andy Serkis among the options. Each page says which one to buy and why.

• Small GodsTerry Pratchett · 2 recordings · our pick
• The HobbitJ.R.R. Tolkien · 5 recordings · our pick
• The Fellowship of the RingJ.R.R. Tolkien · 3 recordings · our pick
• The Two TowersJ.R.R. Tolkien · 3 recordings · our pick
• The Return of the KingJ.R.R. Tolkien · 3 recordings · our pick
• The SilmarillionJ.R.R. Tolkien · 2 recordings · our pick
• Animal FarmGeorge Orwell · 11 recordings

Authors Andy Serkis reads

• J.R.R. Tolkien1 series on this site
• Terry Pratchett1 series on this site

Portraits — J.R.R. Tolkien: Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Terry Pratchett: Photo: Luigi Novi · CC BY 3.0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.

Who else reads these

Narrators who work on the same series — useful when a series is split between readers and you want to know whose voice you are getting.

• Rob InglisThe Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring
• Martin ShawThe Professionals, Judge John Deed, Inspector George Gently
• Indira VarmaThe Cazalet Chronicles, Wyrd Sisters
• Sian CliffordMort, Reaper Man
• Jon CulshawGuards! Guards!, Feet of Clay
• Colin MorganThe Colour of Magic, Interesting Times

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