This time a Norwegian Hobbit arrived. A hardback edition was in 1972 the first translation in Norway. This is – from the same year – the first paperback in Norway.

Thanks to Line Ørmen this Hobbit is now in my collection.

This Hobbit is # 678 in my Hobbit collection.
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A Hobbit, published in Russia, for pupils in school. Exerpts from The Hobbit in English, with a vocabulary in Russian.

110 pages, small pocketbook, AnthologyBooks “Young reader’s club”. Also see Rus 3 and Rus 66.

This Hobbit is # 677 in my Hobbit collection. More information about this Hobbit? Click here.

This time a Hobbit from Albania arrived. I traded this Hobbit with Carlos from Uruguay (yes, far away from Albania!). In return I sent him a Dutch Hobbit.

This Hobbit is # 676 in my Hobbit collection.

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A Hobbit with a story: several times (in 2018 alone four times) I thought I had bought this Hobbit. But …. four times the Hobbit as shown was NOT the Hobbit i received.

But then, all of a sudden, my cousin Marian F. – on a holiday in Germany – bought this Hobbit for me in Berlin. Thanks again, Marian!

This Hobbit, Germany 2011, is # 675 in my Hobbit collection. More information about this Hobbit? Click here.

This time a new (2018) Hobbit from Colombia arrived. I traded this Hobbit with Daniel from Colombia, in return I sent him a Polish Hobbit.

This Hobbit is # 674 in my Hobbit collection.

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This time – thanks to Oliver Bozovĭc from Serbia – two Hobbits from Serbia arrived: Wenzel comic 2002 (2.000 copies were printed) and 1995 from SOLARIS (only 1.000 copies were printed).
These Hobbits are # 672 and 673 in my Hobbit collection.

More information about the comic edition? Click here.

More information about the SOLARIS Hobbit 1995? Click here.

This time a Hobbit from Norway arrived with on cover my favorite Tolkien illustration.
Tidens bibliotek 1980, paperback, first thus (?).

This Hobbit was a gift from Frank Wasmus (UNQUENDOR, Hobbitday 2018 Leiden – thanks again, Frank).

This Hobbit is # 671 in my Hobbit collection.

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This time three Hobbits arrived from Brazil. No ordinary purchase, but an old-fashioned barter trade.

Rafael Pereira da Silva also collects Harry Potter in as many languages as possible and had three Hobbits for exchange.
He received the seven Dutch-language paperbacks in return. Thanks, Rafael.

These Hobbits are # 668 through 670 in my Hobbit collection. More information? Click on year below the covers from left to right: 2009   2013   2016

A new Hobbit in a new langauage (Occitan), from Langedoc, a French department. FIRST print 2018 (thanks Yvan for telling me).

This Hobbit is # 667 in my Hobbit collection and the number of languages/countries is now 81.

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No less than five new Hobbits arrived during the last two weeks. The Netherlands (and certainly I) suffered from temperatures above 32 degrees celsius.

First there are three (modern) Chinese Hobbits, amongst them the possibly most beautifully illustrated Hobbit: The Catlin Hobbit (yes, even in China!). Also very interesting: the one with Bilbo and the eagle happens to be the FIRST AUTHORISIZED CHINESE EDITION! And .. the 1993 Chinese Hobbit is a Pirate edition. (Thanks to Brigitte from Germany these Hobbits are now in my collection).

China FIRST and the Pirate edition: Thank you Lawrence Chang for telling me.

And then there are two Hobbits from Turkey, bought from Pandora: The Annotated Hobbi 2014 and The Hobbit 80 years 2017.

The Hobbits are # 662 – 666 in my Hobbit collection.

More information?
China 2017 Catlin: click here.
China 2000 FIRST: click here.
China 1993 – Pirate: click here.
Turkey 2014 – Annotated Hobbit: click here.
Turkey 2017 – The Hobbit 80 years young: click here.