By Urulókë
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Fellowship: Question #10 - Favorite Foreign edition cover?

17 Nov, 2018
2018/11/17 19:21:13 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

As mentioned previously that this was coming... what's your favorite foreign edition cover for a Tolkien book?

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Urulókë

17 Nov, 2018
2018/11/17 19:23:16 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Personally, having a hard time picking again. I really do like Tove Jansson's cover shown here:

If you are not familiar with foreign editions, most Hobbit covers appear at Henk's website http://hobbithunter.nl/ or here in the Guide section. Browse around!

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Trotter

17 Nov, 2018
2018/11/17 19:33:23 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

From a UK perspective, my favourite foreign edition cover is this one

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Urulókë

17 Nov, 2018
2018/11/17 19:48:02 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Trotter wrote:
From a UK perspective, my favourite foreign edition cover is this one

LOL, fair enough. We should give that lion a name. 😉

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Berelach

17 Nov, 2018
2018/11/17 21:36:50 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

There are so so many great ones. I really like this Czech cover.

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Khamûl

17 Nov, 2018
2018/11/17 21:45:52 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

I suppose I could choose any number of copies that just have alternative covers to UK editions e.g. most modern non-UK copies of The Silmarillion have a different Ted Nasmith cover which sometimes works better. But I do like more design orientated covers like the two H's below; one Czech, one Swedish.