You may recall the cover of this edition of The Hobbit, which was shared in a January post. It’s a quirky take on Bilbo and Smaug that makes going There and Back Again look like a fun little jaunt in the park:
As it turns out, the entire edition is an illustrated edition, chock-full of equally hairy shots of Bilbo’s legs:
and possibly the weirdest Gollum you’ll ever come across:
You’ll have to check out the rest of the ten images at Flavorwire to get the full picture. Do you think your first reading of The Hobbit might have been a bit different if these were the pictures in your mind?
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Author: Oloriel
From time out of mind, Oloriel has been typing away in her little apartment, cats at her feet, hoping to reach out to other fantasy lovers by way of folkandfairy.com. Her discovery of Tolkien as a young adult awakened her long-dormant love of the otherworldly, and now she sees magic everywhere.
Oloriel has a degree in writing, which she put to work during a three-year stint in vanity publishing – an experience not unlike purgatory and very much like having to read 20 bad books each week – which she prefers not to talk about. To renew herself, she knits, naps, reads, prays, writes, walks in the woods, and eats too many cookies.
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