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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This time a very special Hobbit has arrived. Found for me by the great illustrator Octokwan (thanks again, Octokwan).

As far as I know it is the first official edition published in Taiwan. So far I only had a few Taiwanese pirate editions in English.
If you can tell me more, please let me know.

Octo Kwan October 24: NOT the first printing, first printing was in 2001. Thanks Octo Kwan.

This Hobbit is # 906 in my Hobbit collection and brings the number of countries/languages to 94.

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This time two new (modern) Chinese Hobbits arrived:

Paperback, first thus, 2024
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Hardback with dust jacket, first thus, 2024
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These Hobbits are # 904 and 905 in my Hobbit collection.

This time a very special Hobbit arrived: first printing from Thailand (1976).
It was a trade with Carlos from Uruguay. Thanks, Carlos!

!976, paperback, FIRST
This Hobbit is # 903 in my Hobbit collection.

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You may think whatever you want about it, but I looked at what TEMU from China has to offer in Hobbits.
The sequel: three new Hobbits arrived.
They are Hobbits # 900, 901 and 902 in my collection.

Very nice cover, Hobbit # 900.
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Cover by Tolkien himself, Hobbit # 901.
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Cover by Alan Lee, Hobbit # 902.
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This time a new French Hobbit has arrived, a LARGE PRINT edition from 2022.

The Hobbit is a story that Tolkien told his children before they went to sleep.
In France you must  be 16 years or older to read the book?

Since long time the tilte is LE HOBBIT and not BILBO LE HOBBIT.

This Hobbit is # 899 (yes, almost 900) in my Hobbit collection.
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This time no less than seven new Hobbits have arrived.
I now have a collection 0f 898 Hobbits from 93 countries / in 93 languages. 

First there is a new translation of The Hobbit. This time a translation into Welsh.
Then there is a Hobbit from Norway, beautifully illustrated by Tove Jansson.

And last nut not least five Hobbits from France. fellow collector Yvan Strelzyk needed more room and so he had a number of French Hobbits for sale. I bought some 20 of them and five of them have now entered my collectiom Merci bien, Yvan!

The Welsh Hobbit, click here.

The Tove Jansson Hobbit from Norway, click here.

And the five Hobbits from France: