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Fellowship: Question #10 - Favorite Foreign edition cover?

17 Nov, 2018
2018-11-17 7:21:13 PM UTC

As mentioned previously that this was coming... what's your favorite foreign edition cover for a Tolkien book?
17 Nov, 2018
2018-11-17 7:23:16 PM UTC
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!
17 Nov, 2018
2018-11-17 7:33:23 PM UTC
From a UK perspective, my favourite foreign edition cover is this one


17 Nov, 2018
2018-11-17 7:48:02 PM UTC

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

LOL, fair enough. We should give that lion a name. ?
17 Nov, 2018
2018-11-17 9:36:50 PM UTC
There are so so many great ones. I really like this Czech cover.

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17 Nov, 2018
2018-11-17 9:45:52 PM UTC
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.

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17 Nov, 2018
2018-11-17 10:12:24 PM UTC
This German edition is my favourite Hobbit cover.

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17 Nov, 2018
2018-11-17 11:40:12 PM UTC
I almost chose that German cover... I love those colours.
17 Nov, 2018
2018-11-17 11:47:52 PM UTC
I saw it at the Greisinger museum and knew it was the one.
18 Nov, 2018
2018-11-18 11:17:06 AM UTC

Urulöké wrote:
LOL, fair enough. We should give that lion a name. ?

Anything except Aslan
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