someone just gave me a copy of jrr. tolkien's the hobbit, richly illustrated with images from the 1977 rankin-bass animated special! i am one happy nerd!
is this the one thats like, really huge soft cover and it has smog on the front, i believe with a lot of red in it? if so, yea, thats awsome, even if not, thats awsome
thats awesome, i like the old fashioned ones better, not the new ones with orlando bloom and viggo mortensen on the cover.
it's a big softcover, but the cover's white. it does have smaug & the dwarves on it. the title page says it's the first ballantine books edition, third printing, november 1978. i was raised by a family of raving tolkien fanatics. i looked foreward to watching the animatd special on tv every year with the same eagerness with which i awaited christmas. this was one of the coolest gifts i've ever recieved.
