The Hobbit in Children's Digest magazine

[Asger]

Does anyone have copies of Children's Digest magazine with the partial adaptation of The Hobbit (from the 70ies?)? I would like to see scans of some or all the pages of this.

[philcom55]

I've never heard of it - though I do have some 1960s issues of Princess in which the book was serialized. There was also a Spanish adaptation of Lord of the Rings by Luis Bermejo.

- Phil R.

[Asger]

Could you please post some pages from Princess, then? I've got Bermejo's ½LotR in Danish and of course Wenzel's Hobbit.

[philcom55]

I'm afraid it was only a serialization of Tolkien's original text rather than a comic strip adaptation, illustrated in a rather juvenile style by Ferguson Dewar. Here's page one of the initial episode as it appeared in New Princess & Girl for October 10th (the first combined issue).



- Not the Bilbo and Gandalf we're used to from Peter Jackson's films to be sure - but interesting nonetheless.

- Phil Rushton

[Asger]

Thank you very much. Nice to see these illustrations, anyhow.

[Asger]

...and I just discovered that C's D was an American magazine. The Hobbit was partly comic-serialised by Lester Abrams, who worked on the Rankin-Bass movie version too