I just found out that Tove Jansson did illustrations for The Hobbit back in 1960. Some more info and pictures:

https://tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolkien/

https://shop.moomin.com/products/the-hobbit-illustrated-by-tove-jansson

Interesting that she drew Gollum as so large. The page above notes that Tolkien added a note about Gollum's size in later editions of the book because she wasn't the only one that did that.

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Amazing. I'm going to cross-post this.

For those who don't mind occasionally visiting the EE, here are some really cool, unique Russian illustrations:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/1xaqb9k/illustrations_from_the_original_russian/

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