The Soviet "Hobbit"

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

In general, I think the pictures work very well for The Hobbit as a children's book.

That's exactly what it was meant to be, I think. I read many Russian children's books, and most of them had very similar illustrations. I mean, the style of the illustrations. The reason for the orcs to look like vikings is probably because in TH they are called "goblins", and no real description is provided. I guess the artist just had to draw them like he imagined goblins. Considering there are about a thousand different opinions on how goblins look, its not really his/her fault.

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