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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This time a special Hobbit from Finland arrived.

This year (2017) The Hobbit celebrates his 80th birthday. In Finland a special edition was published. Like in 1973 (Finland first) illustrated by Tove Jansson.

Remarkable: in 1973 the title of the book was LOHIKÄÄRME – VUORI.

The book: hardback with dustjacket, published by WSOY.
This Hobbit is # 626 in my Hobbit collection. More information about this Hobbit? Click here.

And here is the first Finnish translation (1973):

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This time the paperback edition of what – in my eyes – is the most beautifully illustrated Hobbit arrived: The Hobbit illustrated by Jemima Catlin.
I am sure Tolkien would have loved this edition.
Paperback, HarperCollins Children’s Books, published September 21, 2017 (yes, indeed …).

This Hobbit is # 625 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time a Hobbit that is more than welcome in my collection. Several times before I thought I had bought this edition, but every time is was another Hobbit.
This time it was the right Hobbit, thanks Le-Livre.fr (antiqbook).

Hardback, no dust jacket issued, Hachette Grandes Oeuvres 1992 (?). This Hobbit is # 624 in my Hobbit collection.

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Once again a Hobbit movie cover arrived, all the way from the US of A. This time #2, published by Mariner Books in 2013.
This Hobbit is # 623 in my Hobbit collection.
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