Brian Weaver

@brianitguy.bsky.social

Chief dog walker, IT Tutor & CWGC volunteer. Former cyclist & rugby fan. Much geekiness in Tolkien, Dad's Army, Sherlock Holmes, aircraft & WW1 history

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For #TolkienTrewsday theme of "bows", I present the Beautiful Bare-chested Brown Bard aiming his arrow at green Smaug from the 1979 cover of Indonesian The Hobbit, drawn by Setyo Sudhiarto.

Translated by A. Adiwiyoto, it used "orang bajang" for Dwarves instead of "kurcaci" like in the new version.

A scanned image of a worn down cover of The Hobbit Indonesia from 1976. The cover is yellow with a green dragon flying and breathing fire, below it a bare chested black haired and brown skinned man with green loincloth and sandals getting ready to fire an arrow to the dragon.
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Jackanory - The Hobbit (1st October 1979). To celebrate reaching the 3000th edition of Jackanory, a tag team of four readers - Jan Francis, Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham, and David Wood - tackled this book.

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Another edition of the all things Tolkien newsletter, the Roving Ranger, has just been sent to its subscribers.

Any shares are highly welcome!

More on the memorial; a lovely family story; new day of the week for the RR; and tons more...

steady.page/en/thetolkie...

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