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Here are some wonderful illustrations from a Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' https://mashable.com/2015/12/25/soviet-hobbit/ https://mashable.com/2015/12/25/sovi
by galuggus 6y ago
Here are some wonderful illustrations from a Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit'
https://mashable.com/2015/12/25/soviet-hobbit/ https://mashable.com/2015/12/25/soviet-hobbit/
- hallarempt 6y agoI had that book -- bought it in Leyden, the Netherlands when I was studying Russian. When we have a group of Russian orphans staying over in the early nineties, I gave them all my Russian books, including this one. It was really good to see them reading out of Xobbit to each other every night :-) Since then, I've forgotten all my Russian...
- grawprog 6y agoI have to say, I prefer the illustrations in that Soviet version to the illustrated western version based on that cartoon movie. Smaug actually looks like a dragon, instead of a giant cat...
- macleginn 6y agoThis book was republished several times with the same content but with a different colour of the cover each time (white; dark blue; something brownish; maybe more). As a child, and I went through at least three different colours; I managed to destroy or lose a The Hobbit every year or so.
- hhjinks 6y agoI love that the Arkenstone is what Bilbo holds on the cover, and not The One Ring.