Four international covers for The Hobbit. Which is your favourite? #FolkloreThursday

Here's a few interior illustrations from O Gnomo (The Hobbit), published in 1962. These are by António Quadros.

And here are some interior illustrations from the Soviet edition of The Hobbit (1976) by Mikhail Belomlinsky.

Tove Jansson's 1962 illustrations for The Hobbit are memorably spooky, as well as delightful.