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There is an enormous difference in tone if you actually read any of Tove Janssons books.

And Tove was hardly pissing on anything - she was commissioned to illustrate a version of the book by the publisher.

I believe Tove Jansson also painted the color cover for the first authorized American edition of Fellowship of the Ring (1965).

Funny that the first Swedish translation, from 1947, also had an illustration of a huge Gollum, and Tolkien already commented on that long before Tove Jansson's did her version.

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Adding myself tove the crowd "still in love \w my tablet":) My work laptop stays at work.

So based on this, while Tove's pictures look more like a parody, I don't really see it as intrinsically wrong.

I read Finnish version of Hobbit that had Tove's art about 40 years ago.

The "original material" was modified significantly - Tove's illustration of Gollum, e.g., was not inconsistent with the 1937 edition she was working from, before Tolkien rewrote the scene to bring it more in-line with the version of the character from the Lord of the Rings in the second edition.

"Paul Gravett writes in his new book about Tove Jansson: ‘Her Gollum towered monstrously large, to the surprise of Tolkien himself, who realized that he had never clarified Gollum’s size and so amended the second edition to describe him as ‘a small, slimy creature’." We have Jansson to thank for the clarification, it seems!

Adding myself tove the crowd "still in love \w my tablet":) My work laptop stays at work.

The "original material" was modified significantly - Tove's illustration of Gollum, e.g., was not inconsistent with the 1937 edition she was working from, before Tolkien rewrote the scene to bring it more in-line with the version of the character from the Lord of the Rings in the second edition.

"Paul Gravett writes in his new book about Tove Jansson: ‘Her Gollum towered monstrously large, to the surprise of Tolkien himself, who realized that he had never clarified Gollum’s size and so amended the second edition to describe him as ‘a small, slimy creature’." We have Jansson to thank for the clarification, it seems!

So based on this, while Tove's pictures look more like a parody, I don't really see it as intrinsically wrong.

I read Finnish version of Hobbit that had Tove's art about 40 years ago.