Barbara Remington —but I must ask this about the vignette: what has it got to do with the story? Where is this place? Why a lion and emus? And what is the thing in the foreground with pink bulbs? I do not understand how anybody who had read the tale (I hope you are one) could think such a picture would please the author. – J.R.R. Tolkien to Rayner Unwin 1962   Horace Engels 1957 German Edition I continue to … Continue reading Ten of the Weirdest Book Covers for The Hobbit