This time a new French Hobbit arrived, beautifully illustrated by Tove Jansson.
This Hobbit is 3 955 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time a new edition (2025) of the comic Hobbit by David Wenzel.
Revised and expanded.
This Hobbit is # 954 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time a very beautifully illustrated German Hobbit arrived.
Illustrated by Tove Jansson.
This Hobbit is # 953 in my Hobbit collection.
There also is a Danish translation with this cover (2022) and a Norwegean translation (2023).
In October France will follow.
Finland had two illustrated Hobbits by Tove, in 1973 and 2017, but with another front.
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This time a French Hobbit from 2013 arrived. Looks the same as Fra 33, but this Hobbit is published by a French book club.
This Hobbit is # 952 in my Hobbit collection.
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A new Hobbit, all the way from China, arrived.
A paperback with a wrapper.
This Hobbit is # 951 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time a French Hobbit arrived, bought for me by good friends Eric en Liesbeth during their holidays in France.
This Hobbit is # 950 in my collection.
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A severe rib contusion has left me without the energy to update my site for over two months.
Fortunately, the complaints are now as good as over and today, Easter Sunday, I have added 26 new Hobbits to my site.
Seven times modern Chinese, two times French, two times The Hobbit in two parts from Korea, two Spanish Hobbits, one Russian, one Hungarian, one from Lithuania, one Danish, three from Poland, one from Uruguay (FIRST), also one from Australia (FIRST) and last but not least the two editions of Gaelic (Scotland) (FIRST), again a beautiful edition by Michael Everson of Evertype.
My collection now consists of 935 Hobbits from 97 countries or in 97 languages.
Thanks to Brigitte (Chinese and Korean Hobbits), Eric & Liesbeth (France and Spain) and Kacper (Poland) for their help in purchasing the new Hobbits.
And … the hunt continues.
Once again a new Hobbit from China arrived.
Published in 2024, hardback, no dust jacket issued.
This Hobbit is # 909 in my Hobbit collection.
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Recently, several new editions of The Hobbit have been released in China. This is one of them:
A Hobbit (together with an information booklet about Tolkien and his work) with no less than 24 illustrations by Tolkien in the beginning of the book.
This Hobbit is # 908 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time a new Hobbit from Italy arrived. A DeLuxe edition with no less than 51 illustrations by Tolkien himself.
This Hobbit is # 907 in my Hobbit collection.
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Info from http://www.jrrtolkien.it/…/a-novembre-la-nuova…/ :
The absolute novelty is that The Hobbit now has a new Italian translation for the first time in fifty years.
Not a repetition of the “classic” translation, as it was in 2013, but a complete remake, made by AIST member Wu Ming 4 , born Federico Guglielmi. In fact,
The Hobbit was still missing from the retranslation of Tolkien’s complete works, inaugurated by Bompiani in 2017 . This beautiful new edition offered the hook to fill the gap.
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