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Why the "Little" Hobbit, I wonder? 🤔
Ask the publishers. The first translation of TH was from 1957 by Wolfgang Scherf - and the title at first translated into "Little Hobbit and the Big - or Great - Wizard"! It was then changed to "The Little Hobbit."
The new translation in 1997 by Wolfgang Krege had the translated original title "Der Hobbit".
Krege also translated "The Silmarillion" in 1978, Humphrey Carpenter's "Biography" in 1979 and "Letters" in 1991, TH as mentioned above, a somewhat controversial "The Lord of the Rings" in 2000 and Tom Shippey's "Author of the Century" in 2002.

These are the book covers of the German translations (book club licensed editions) that I bought for my wife many years ago.
RoTK, btw, is quite the shortest of the three books, as the only thing it has in the way of appendices is part (v) of Appendix A, "A part of the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen".



 
I am sure someone already posted this cover, but my first copy of the Lord of the Rings was the 50th Anniversary Edition and I absolutely love it!
 
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