Tolkien 📔Book Covers

[Alice]

I can't speak or read Russian but I'd almost want to collect those just for the artwork, it's gorgeous! Thank you for sharing .

Oh, I'm happy that you like it! I still have something that I haven't shared yet. Well, some modern books have the same covers as English editions, but older ones have their own

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Alice, please attach that "Elrond as a girl" pic you showed me to your post on the children's Hobbit book. It's hilarious.

 

[Alice]

Alice, please attach that "Elrond as a girl" pic you showed me to your post on the children's Hobbit book. It's hilarious.

Ok, I'll edit it now

 

[Alice]

Maybe you didn't know that, but Elrond actually was a girl. In opinion of the illustrator, of course

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Maybe you didn't know that, but Elrond actually was a girl. In opinion of the illustrator, of course

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Is this the children's version of The Hobbit? I see that Bilbo looks like a 5 year old

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[Squint-eyed Southerner]

That's what the hobbits all look like to me in Hildebrandt illustrations, TBH. Children, I mean.

Their Tolkien stuff was always too Disneyfied for my taste, anyway.

 

[Elthir]

Here's Howe!

I have an English one volume paperback with this Gandalf illustration.
It has added value in my head -- read bits of it at "The Bird and Baby"
and more bits at the Lamb & Flag.

 

[Alice]

Is this the children's version of The Hobbit? I see that Bilbo looks like a 5 year old

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Yes, it is. You haven't seen Gandalf from here, he is so cute, like a real fairy tale wizard

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I'd send you a PM, Elthir, but as you are above such mere mortal things as likes (or hates -- is there a "hate" reaction here?) I guess that's out of the question. (Sniff 😥)

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

That's right -- expose me as the liar I am.

I suppose next you'll let me PM you.

Call me Sorrowman. 😰

 

[Elthir]

Sorry, I meant to hit "reply"

And as for a female Elrond: Eleronde vanimelda, elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo!

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Oh, that explains it!

OK, then. Everything back to norbal.

 

[Rivendell_librarian]

Alice Alice

In your post #29 is that John R.R. Tolkien as the author?

Interesting since most English versions go with J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[Alice]

Alice Alice

In your post #29 is that John R.R. Tolkien as the author?

Interesting since most English versions go with J.R.R. Tolkien

Yes, it is so. Джон. Р. Р. Толкин he would be

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I don't think he would have liked being called "Peepee Tolkien" though. *


* Yeah yeah I know! I'm joking.

Jeez. They can't all be gems.

 

[Alice]

I don't think he would have liked being called "Peepee Tolkien" though. *


* Yeah yeah I know! I'm joking.

Jeez. They can't all be gems.

He is not called so 😟 He is "Er er" Tolkien.
Russian Р is er

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Dats wot ah ment.

 

[Elthir]

Hmm. I don't recall seeing this idea before. Then again, maybe I just forgot.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Folio Society, if I'm not mistaken.


Edit: I am.

 

[Elthir]

Kinda like the simplicity of this Silmarillion cover. This is by Miquel Roig, done simple to re-cover his own book . . . so not really in line with the thread, but . . .