The Lord of the Rings (Audio-Ebook/Whispersync-like/EPUB3) – J. R. R. Tolkien Free Audiobook

Written by J. R. R. Tolkien
Read by Andy Serkis
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

This is an EPUB3 with Media Overlays. You can read the book and have the audiobook, narrated by Andy Serkis, synced up with your reading. The relevant sentences will be highlighted.

Opus 32 kbps mono

EPub Edition MARCH 2009 ISBN: 978-0-007-32259-6
by HarperCollins

Illustrated by Alan Lee

You can use epub3 readers which support media overlays. On desktop, you have Thorium Reader. The Colibrio Reader works from the browser via this link: https://demo.colibrio.com/

On mobile, Colibrio Reader (best on Android, iOS coming soon) and Reasily (Android). Sorry, I do not own any Apple device and cannot give out any recommendations. But all these other readers work with this book.
Issues: You might find that the beginning of the Fellowship of the Ring doesn’t track well because of the extra chapter that is specific to the 50th edition. But if you go directly to the Prologue, it will from then on track well.

Sample: https://v.redd.it/yxof7req2cec1

Description from Goodreads:
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

From Sauron’s fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.

When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.

The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.