Editing Goldberry (section)

=== Radio ===

In a twelve-part radio adaptation of ''The Lord of the Rings'' which ran from 1955 to 1956, the producer [[Terence Tiller]] wrote Goldberry as Tom Bombadil's daughter.<ref name=radio/> This alteration annoyed Tolkien,<ref name=Letters2 group=T>{{harvnb|Carpenter|2023|loc=letter 175 To Mrs Molly Waldron, November 1955 }}</ref> though he conceded that the events described in the 1934 poem are not clearly summarized in the published version of ''The Lord of the Rings''.<ref name=radio>{{cite book |last1=Hammond |first1=Wayne |last2=Scull |first2=Christina |author1-link=Wayne G. Hammond |author2-link=Christina Scull |title=The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Vol 2. Reader's Guide |date=2006 |location=Boston |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin]] |isbn=978-0-618-39101-1 |page=1256}}</ref> <!-- No actress was credited for the role. -->

The chapters involving the Old Forest and its characters were omitted from [[Brian Sibley]] and [[Michael Bakewell]]'s [[The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)|1981 radio adaptation of ''The Lord of the Rings'']]<!-- to fit within the air-time-->.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Hiley |editor1-first=Margaret |editor2-last=Weinreich |editor2-first=Frank |title=Tolkien's Shorter Works: Proceedings of the 4th Seminar of the Deutsche Tolkien-Gesellschaft & Walking Tree Publishers Decennial Conference |date=2008 |location=Zollikofen |publisher=[[Walking Tree Publishers]] |page=12 |isbn=978-3-905-70311-5}}</ref> In 1992, Sibley produced a radio series, ''Tales from the Perilous Realm'', which featured short texts by Tolkien; the episode "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" covered ''The Lord of the Rings'' chapters cut from the 1981 adaptation, including those about the Old Forest. Goldberry is voiced by [[Sorcha Cusack]] for the adaptation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Review: Tales of the Perilous Realm Dramatization re-released by BBC AudioBooks America (10.11.08 by Pieter Collier)|url=http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/853-Tales-Perilous-Realm-BBC-Dramatization.php |website=Tolkien Library |access-date=28 January 2021}}</ref>