“The Rankin/Bass Hobbit float seen in the 1977 Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade with Orson Bean, who was the voice of Bilbo in the animated special.“ (via thelandofshadow.com )
Tove Jansson’s illustrations of J.R.R Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”
It was Astrid Lindgren, author of the universally beloved Pippi Longstockings, who as an editor and publisher by the Stockholm publishing house Rabén & Sjögren approached Tove and asked her to illustrate the Swedish edition of The Hobbit.
Haters will witness thee arising from the fogged swamp on the seventh moon of saturns rotation and wave torches and pitchforks at thee, proclaiming thou art an creature of unholy origin
