Hobbithunter

Dear Tolkien fans,

Today my new webshop with books by and on Tolkien has gone LIVE!

Since many a year I am a collector of books by and on Tolkien. Not only for my own private Hobbit collection (see: www.hobbithunter,nl), but I also collected many double copies of books by and on Tolkien.

These double copies are now FOR SALE.

So, please go to www.hobbithuterbookshop.com. The site starts with 137 items, but more items will follow. And, guess what? Within an hour 15 books were already sold!

All the best and I hope to meet you soon,
Henk Brassien / www.hobbithunter.nl / www.hobbithunterbookshop.com

Waarde Tolkienliefhebbers, gegroet!

Op zondag 31 juli wordt in Zutphen de jaarlijkse boekenmarkt langs de IJssel gehouden. Dit jaar voor de 13e keer. De markt telt circa 55 kramen en mijn Hobbithunter Bookshop kon een op het laatste moment vrijgekomen plaats krijgen.

Kom dus naar Zutphen en breng een bezoek aan mijn kraam. Wat ik bij mij heb? Een fraaie collectie boeken van en over Tolkien.

Openingstijden: van 10.00 – 17.00 uur. Toegang geheel gratis!

Meer weten over deze boekenmarkt: Zie: http://boekenvreugd.nl/promotie.html

Weest welkom!

Waarde Tolkienliefhebbers, gegroet!

Zaterdag 30 juli 2011 sta ik van 09.00 uur – 17.00 uur op de boekenmarkt in Nijkerk.

Plaats: Plein en Kolkstraat. De toegang is helemaal gratis!
Wat heb ik bij mij? Veel boeken van en over Tolkien in allerlei talen.

Meer weten over de boekenmarkt? Ga naar http://www.sppn.info/boekenmarkt.htm.

Graag tot 30 juli in Nijkerk!

ALWEER EEN NIEUWE VERTALING VAN THE HOBBIT

Niemand weet precies in hoeveel talen The Hobbit van J.R.R. Tolkien vertaald is. Ik houd het zelf op 60. Die 60 talen zijn te zien op mijn website www.hobbithunter.nl, mijn verzameling van zo’n 400 Hobbits in 60 talen. In 2009 was de Friese vertaling van Anne Tjerk Popkema vertaling nummer 59.

Het verhaal van de Bengaalse vertaling van The Hobbit begon in december 2010, toen de vertaler (ANIRUDDHA) via mijn website www.hobbithunter.nl contact met mij opnam. Hij had problemem om een uitgever te vinden, die zijn vertaling wilde / kon publiceren. Ik stelde hem toen voor om gebruik te maken van Printing On Demand. Dat deed hij en niet veel later was daar de Bengaalse versie van The Hobbit. Klik op de afdeling voor meer gegevens over het boek.

Bengaals? Onbekend? Nou, het gaat wel om zo’n 300.000.000 mensen in Bengalen en delen van India, die die taal spreken. Iets meer dan het Nederlands, dus.

In het boek staan 35 tekeningen van ANIRUDDHA (Santi Chatterjee).

Het boek is te koop voor plm. EUR 17,00 bij http://www.dogearsetc.com/mainpage.jsp?type=2&id=36751. Wel even vermelden, dat je met PayPal wil betalen.

TRANSLATION:

Nobody seems to know exactly how many translations there are of The Hobbit. I think there are sixty. Those sixty translations can be seen on my website www.hobbithunter.nl. The Bengali translation is # 60. In 2009 the Frisian (local Dutch language) translation by Anne Tjerk Popkema was # 59.

The story of the Bengali translation started in 2010, when the translator ANIRUDDHA contacted me. He had problems finding a publisher. I suggested POD (printing on demand). He did and not much later there was the Bengali translation. Click on yhe cover and find more information on this book.

Bengali … never heard of? Well, it is a language spoken by some 300.000.000 people in Bengali and parts of India.

ANIRUDDHA also made 35 illustrations for this book.

How to buy this book (+/- EUR 17,00 including p&p)? Go to http://www.dogearsetc.com/mainpage.jsp?type=2&id=36751.
Don’t forget to mention that you will pay with Paypal.

Recently, the audio version of the Frisian translation of The Hobbit (2009) was released.

The audiobook, at a total length of approx. 8 hours, can be bought as a cd box consisting of 7 cd’s (€20 excl. postage) at

http://www.facebook.com/l/85192bS0jIRYqSy61oxGFCv5wpA/audiofrysk.nl, or as a download (€14) at

http://www.facebook.com/l/85192dCT6bNixhCR7E-Iuye_3kw/www.luisterrijk.nl.

The book itself is still available at €20 at:

http://www.facebook.com/l/85192S67c7noVmXKVkSQHVnRByw/webshop.elikser.nl/fantasy.

For more information on the Frisian Hobbit as a book, go to:

http://www.hobbithunter.nl/gallery2/v/Hobbitsihave/Frisian+-+Dutch/Frisian+Hobbit+1.jpg.html

Rolands Savvins could tell me more about the stories in Russian Hobbit #6 in my Hobbitcollection. He wrote me as follows:

Book starts with short verse by J.R.R. Tolkien called “Goblin Feet”. Than goes “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again”.
And in the end other stories written by J.R.R. Tolkien:
1)”Smith of Wooton Major”
2)”Farmer Giles of Ham”
3)”The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses From the Red Book”
4)”The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son”
5)Some selected letters written by Tolkien
6)A lecture written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1931: “A Secret Vice”
7)”Leaf by Niggle”

Illustrations:
dustjack – Tim Hidebrandt
hardback  - A. Saukova

Rolands, thanks again!

More help is always welcome. If you see a “?” in bookdescriptions and you know what there should be, please, contact me at info@hobbithunter.nl.

From the HarperCollins series LITTLE READS for W.H. Smith Ltd (Famous British Bokshops) here is the first chapter of The Hobbit.
This small Hobbit (only 9,7 x 13,7 cm) was bought on eBay.

This Hobbit is my #39 for Russian Hobbits. Printed in 1991, bough on eBay.

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Bookshop for the Hobbithunter?
 Yes, in a few months there will be a Hobbithunter Bookshop. More than 1.000 books by and on Tolkien will be for sale there.
If you wish, you can already now inform if you are looking for one or more Tolkien books.

A very special Hobbit this time: a Hobbit in Bengali, a language, spoken in Bangladesh, Bengali and some parts of India. A large language: some 300.000.000 people speak it!

This Hobbit has not yet been published. The translator, ANIRUDDHA, sent me the first chapter and some of his illustrations. I can only hope, that this Hobbit will be printed soon.

ANIRUDDHA, thank you!

Since january, 2010, I write an article on Hobbits on website www.dehobbit.net.
Every first Wednesday my article is published.

It is a site in Dutch, but the site has a Translator. So, take a look at www.dehobbit.net and on the right site you will find The Hobbithunter and the translator.

Happy Hobbithunting,
Henk Brassien / www.hobbithunter.nl

PS: My webshop (with lots of books by and on Tolkien) will open somewhere in 2011.

It was a good year for my Hobbit Collection. No less than 43 new entries this year. Amongst them some special ones: first printings. From Poland 1960 (thanks to Marek), Portugal 1962 (thanks to Paulo) and Finland 1962 (thanks to Marek, again).

Poland 1960 Portugal 1962

Finland 1973

And in 2010 it was 50 years ago, that The Hobbit had it’s first printing in Dutch. To celebrate that, there was a jubilee package of three books: De Hobbit in the same cover as in 1960 (Kelfkens), a first Dutch graphic version of De Hobbit and the first Dutch translation of Bilbo’s Last Song (Bilbo’s laatste lied).

Jubilee package 50 years The Hobbit in Dutch

From December 6, 2010 untill January, 3 2011 there is a little exposition of some of my Hobbits in the shop-window  of Waanders Bookshop in Zwolle, see photo below. Amongst the shown books there are the five first prints of the five first translations of The Hobbit: Sweden 1947, Germany 1957, Holland 1960, Poland 1960 (a few months later) and Portugal 1962.

photo: www.dehobbit.net

And for those of you, that can read Dutch, since january 2010 I write a short article on Hobbits on website www.dehobbit.net.

For 2011: all the best to all of you!