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Robert Keith Inglis (the 9th of March 1933 - the 23rd of May 2021) was an Australian-British actor, playwright, dramatist, journalist, critic, and producer. He is best known for narrating the first unabridged audiobook editions of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1990) and The Hobbit (1991) for Recorded Books.
Rob Inglis recorded The Lord of the Rings in an intense six-week period in 1990 at Recorded Books' New York studio. The Hobbit was recorded about a year later, in 1991.
Until Andy Serkis released a new recording in 2020, Inglis' reading of The Hobbit was the only commercially available unabridged edition of the book. The recordings were only available on physical media until 2012, when they were released in digital format.
Rob Inglis won the Festival Times Best Solo award in 1981 for his one-man stage dramatisation of The Hobbit. His stage adaptations of Tolkien's work were what led Recorded Books to ask him to narrate the audiobook editions.
In addition to the Tolkien audiobooks, Rob Inglis narrated the first three books by Ursula K. Le Guin in the Earthsea Cycle.
Rob Inglis wrote several plays, including Voyage of the Endeavour (1965), Canterbury Tales (1968), Men Who Shaped Australia, for Better or for Worse (1968), A Rum Do (1970), and Erf (1971). In 2012, he received a 16,000-pound Arts Council grant to write Regent's Canal, a Folk Opera, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the digging of the eight-mile Regent's Canal.