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TIL that Tove Jansson illustrated a version of The Hobbit (discuss.online)
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I just found out that Tove Jansson did illustrations for The Hobbit back in 1960. Some more info and pictures:

https://tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolkien/

https://shop.moomin.com/products/the-hobbit-illustrated-by-tove-jansson

Interesting that she drew Gollum as so large. The page above notes that Tolkien added a note about Gollum's size in later editions of the book because she wasn't the only one that did that.

--credit to m_f@discuss.online

For those who don't mind occasionally visiting the EE, here are some really cool, unique Russian illustrations:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/1xaqb9k/illustrations_from_the_original_russian/

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[–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Truth.

Altho Jansson's emphasis here was solely on The Hobbit, with no sense of continuity nor artistic attempt to integrate it in to the overall Middle Earth world. Just taking it back to its original, whimsical roots, so to speak.

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