In the first edition of The Hobbit, Gollum willingly bets his magic ring on the outcome of the riddle-game, and he and Bilbo part amicably. [7] In the second edition edits, to reflect the new concept of the One Ring and its corrupting abilities, Tolkien made Gollum more aggressive towards Bilbo and distraught at losing the ring. The encounter ends with Gollum's curse, "Thief! Thief, Thief, Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!" This presages Gollum's portrayal in The Lord of the Rings. [52] A variant binding, corresponding to FS1979, has been seen occasionally. The run may have been a mistake or contingency printing. The printing run seems to have been small.

a b c Records of George Allen & Unwin Ltd (Held by the University of Reading Special Collections Service. See catalogue item RUL MS 3282, Letters to/from Houghton Mifflin 1950–1963) Tolkien's portrayal of goblins in The Hobbit was particularly influenced by George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin. [22] However, MacDonald's influence on Tolkien was more profound than the shaping of individual characters and episodes; his works further helped Tolkien form his whole thinking on the role of fantasy within his Christian faith. [23] Verne's runic cryptogram from Journey to the Center of the Earth Elliot, Ralph W. V. (1998). " 'Runes in English Literature' From Cynewulf to Tolkien". In Duwel, Klaus (ed.). Runeninschriften Als Quelle Interdisziplinärer Forschung (in German and English). Walter de Gruyter. pp.663–664. ISBN 978-3-11-015455-9.Using the remaining hiking footage, as some was used earlier, the Dwarves enter the Misty Mountains while the most triumphant part of the Misty Mountains theme plays. Poveda, Jaume Albero (2003–2004). "Narrative Models in Tolkien's Stories of Middle-earth". Journal of English Studies. 4: 7–22. doi: 10.18172/jes.84 . Retrieved 9 July 2008. That said, you could say that the silhouette is a victim of its own nebulous triumph. It’s so common that it can be tough to make it original these days. Designers who succeed often play it against the cover typography (as in David Nicholls’ Us) or make the silhouette itself exceedingly arresting (as in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian.) One might also add illustrators to the list of Tolkien interpreters above who have—in the almost eighty years since The Hobbit’s publication and sixty years since the first appearance of The Lord of the Rings trilogy—done their best to visualize Tolkien’s world. But perhaps no one did so better than the master himself. Long known as a visual artist as well as a literary one, Tolkien left behind over 100 illustrations for The Hobbit, one of which adorns 2011’s HarperCollins 75th anniversary edition of the book. He also created these original cover designs for each book in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

This is the sort of Disneyfied cover that would have horrified Tolkien, but it’s been so popular a Jubilee edition was issued in 2010, 60 years after the first Dutch translation of The Hobbit. Portuguese Cover 1962 a b Edwards, Owen Dudley (2008). British Children's Fiction in the Second World War. Edinburgh University Press. p. 458. ISBN 978-0-7486-1651-0. Gandalf departs and his entire side quest to the High Fells and Dol Guldur is removed, with him only returning right before the final battle to warn of an Orc army. That way, his disappearance still receives some form of explanation and weight, it was not for nothing. A 55 minute battle has now been reduced to just 18.5 minutes, split in half by some slower scenes with Thorin & co. inside Erebor. Instead of Radagast showing up after the Troll cave and beginning the ensuing Warg chase, the music transitions into a new hiking montage using footage taken from later in the film showing the Company progress through the wild.Thranduil’s conclusion is a repurposed and recut scene from earlier in the movie, previously highlighting his motivations to retreat, but now being used as a scene where he reflects on the casualties of war. For this list, a printing is a variant of a separate edition if both it is not a separate edition itself and also any of the following criteria is met: