This time once again a Russian Hobbit arrived. Interbuk-Hortica, 1994
Hardback no dust jacket issued, beautifully illustrated.
This Hobbit is # 639 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time two Hobbits from Russia have arrived.
Excerpts from all 19 chapters of The Hobbit in English with a vocabulary in Russian.
Anthology Books, Young Reader’s Club 2015.
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Well-know cover is it not? This time first thus 2017, AST Moskwa.
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The first Hobbit to arrive in this new year 2018, came from France. Published in 2012 when The Hobbit celebrated his 75th birthday.
Christian Bourgois Éditeur, hardback with dust jacket.
This Hobbit is # 636 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time a Spanish Hobbit arrived. Hardback, minotauro 2013, cover by John Howe.
Same cover as the paperback from 2003.
This Hobbit is # 635 in my Hobbit collection.
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Great news: finally there is a translation into Afrikaans, the language of the country where Tolkien was born in 1892.
It was about time, was it not?
PROTEA Boekhuis Pretoria, 2017, paperback. Illustrated by David Wyatt.
This Hobbit is # 634 in my Hobbit collection in (now) 80 languages / from 80 countries.
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This time a Russian Hobbit arrived. Hardback, no dust jacket issued. 1991.
This Hobbit us # 633 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time a French Hobbit arrived, bought in a small village in France by a former colleage of mine, thank you Mae.
Pocketbook, 1989, different from Fra 1 (1987).
This Hobbit is # 632 in my Hobbit collection.
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Published in the USA as a Serbian edition of The Hobbit. Is it a pirate edition?
New book 2017, published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, Printing on demand, A3, large print edition.
Illustrated by Alan Lee (in b&w, does Alan know about this?).
This Hobbit is # 631 in my Hobbit collection. More information about this Hobbit, click here.
This time a very special Hobbit arrived: The Hobbit in TENGWAR.
“Translator” Elmenel (Tsvetelina Krumova) spent several years in transcripting The Hobbit into Tengwar. November 2017 43 copies were printed, this is # 17 (the day of my birthday). More information, click here.
This Hobbit is # 630 in my Hobbit collection (now in 79 languages / from 79 countries).
For more information about Elmenel and this book, go to www.parmaeldalieva.com
Three new Hobbits arrived this time, one was very special: the first printing from Brazil, 1976. Thanks to Eduardo Oliferr, it took him about a year to find this Hobbit for me. Eduardo, thank you so much!
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Hobbit #2 is an English comic edition, the revised edition 2006:
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And last, but certainly not least, there is a rather special Russian Hobbit.
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