Translations of The Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit has been translated into many languages. Known translations, with the first date of publishing, are:

Language	Year	Title	Translator	Notes
Albanian	2005	Hobiti	Maklen Misha	Tirana: Shtëpia e Librit & Komunikit ISBN 99943-641-8-9
Arabic	2008	الهوبيت، أو ذهابًا وعودة (Al-Hūbīt, aw Zehaban wa ʿAwda)	هشام فهمي - مي غنيم (Hisham Fahmy - May Ghanim)	Dokki, Giza: Dar Lila (No ISBN)
Armenian	1984	ՀՈԲԻՏ կամ գնալն ու գալը	Emma Makarian	Yerevan. Translated from the Russian translation by N. Rakhmanova. Uses the Belomlinskij illustrations from the Rakhmanova Russian edition.
Asturian	2014	El Hobbit	Miguel Gallego Gómez	Gijón. Published by Ediciones Terrier. ISBN 978-84-617-1545-9.
Belarusian	2002	Хобіт, або Вандроўка туды і назад	K. Kurchankova and D. Magilevtsav	Minsk. Contains both maps with place-names in Belarusian, based on the Belomlinskij Russian maps.
Basque	2008	Hobbita edo Joan-etorri bat	Sergio Ibarrola and Xabier Olarra	Iruñea: Igela Argitaletxea. ISBN 978-84-87484-88-9. Maps with place-names in English
Bengali	2011	হবিট (Hôbiţô)	Aniruddha	Margao: CinnamonTeal. ISBN 9789380151939.
Breton	2000	An Hobbit, pe eno ha distro	Alan Dipode	Argenteuil: Éditions Arda. ISBN 2-911979-03-6. Contains both maps with place-names in Breton; the runes are translated into Breton.
Bulgarian	1975	Билбо Бегинс или дотам и обратно	Красимира Тодорова (Krasimira Todorova)	Sofia: Narodna Mladezh (София, „Народна младеж“). Verse translations by Assen Todorov (Асен Тодоров).
Catalan	1983	El Hòbbit o viatge d'anada i tornada	Francesc Parcerisas	The runes and both maps (the one for the Wildlands and the other one for the Lonely Mountain) are in Catalan. Some names, though, remain in English (such as Baggins or Took, which in the Lord of the Rings are translated as Saquet and Tuc respectively). Published by La Magrana (Edicions de la Magrana, SA. Pàdua, 83, 08006, Barcelona) in April 1983 (first edition); the last edition was in May 2001 (20th edition). ISBN 84-8264-277-4.
Traditional Chinese	2001	魔戒前傳 哈比人歷險記 (Mojie qianzhuan: Habiren lixianji)	朱學恆 (Lucifer Chu)	Both maps are in Chinese. ISBN 957-08-2334-8
Simplified Chinese	2002	魔戒前传: 霍比特人 (Mojie qianzhuan: Huobiteren)	李尧 (Li Yao)	Nanjing: Yilin Press. 2000. ISBN 7-80657-190-6
Simplified Chinese	2013	霍比特人 (Huobiteren)	吴刚 (Wu Gang)	Shanghai: Shiji Wenjing; Shanghai People's Publishing House. 2013. ISBN 9787208111028 authorized by the Tolkien Estate
Cornish	2014	An Hobys, pò, An Fordh Dy ha Tre Arta	Nicholas Williams	Cathair na Mart: Evertype, ISBN 978-1-78201-090-6 (hb), ISBN 978-1-78201-089-0 (pb). Contains both maps with place-names in Cornish; the runes are translated into Cornish. On the cup in the illustration "Conversations with Smaug" ('Kescows gans Smawg') the text in Tengwar and initials in runes are translated into Cornish.
Croatian	1994	Hobit ili tamo i opet natrag	Zlatko Crnković	(See also Serbo-Croatian, below)
Czech	1979	Hobit, aneb cesta tam a zase zpátky	František Vrba	Prague: Odeon. In book translation credited for political reasons to Lubomír Dorůžka. Illustrated by Jiří Šalamoun.
Danish	1969	Hobbitten, eller ud og hjem igen	Ida Nyrop Ludvigsen	Copenhagen: Gyldendal. 1969. No maps.
Danish	2012	Hobbitten, eller ud og hjem igen	Jakob Levinsen	Copenhagen: Gyldendal. 2012. ISBN 978-87-02-12852-9.
Dutch	1960	De Hobbit of daarheen en weer terug	Max Schuchart	Utrecht/Antwerpen: Het Spectrum. 1960. No maps.
Esperanto	2000	La Hobito aŭ Tien kaj Reen	Christopher Gledhill, poems translated by William Auld	Kaliningrad: Sezonoj. Rereleased in 2005. Runes are translated to Esperanto.
Esperanto	2015	La Hobito, aŭ, Tien kaj Reen	Christopher Gledhill, poems translated by William Auld	Portlaoise: Evertype, ISBN 978-1-78201-110-1 (hb), ISBN 978-1-78201-109-5 (pb). Contains both maps with place-names in Esperanto; the runes are translated into Esperanto. On the cup in the illustration "Conversations with Smaug" ('Konversacio kun Smaŭg') the text in Tengwar and initials in runes are translated into Esperanto.
Estonian	1977	Kääbik, ehk, Sinna ja tagasi	Lia Rajandi (prose and poems), Harald Rajamets (poems)	Tallinn: Eesti raamat
Faroese	1990	Hobbin ella út og heim aftur	Axel Tórgarð	Hoyvík: Stíðin
Finnish	1973	Lohikäärmevuori, eli Erään hoppelin matka sinne ja takaisin	Risto Pitkänen	Helsinki: Tammi
Finnish	1985	Hobitti eli Sinne ja takaisin	Kersti Juva	Helsinki: Werner Söderström
French	1969	Bilbo le Hobbit	Francis Ledoux	Paris: Le Livre de Poche. 2002. ISBN 2-253-04941-7. Contains both maps with place-names in French; the runes remain in English.
French	2012	Le Hobbit	Daniel Lauzon	Paris: Christian Bourgois éditeur. 2012. ISBN 9782267024012. Contains both maps with place-names in French; the runes are translated.
West Frisian	2009	De Hobbit	Anne Tjerk Popkema	Leeuwarden: Uitgeverij Elikser. 2009. ISBN 90-8954-112-8.
Galician	2000	Ó hobbit	Moisés R. Barcia	Vigo: Edicións Xerais de Galicia
Georgian	2002	ჰობიტი ანუ იქით და აქეთ (Hobitʼi anu ikit da aket)	Nino Bardzimishvili, poems translated by Tinatin Gogochashvili	Tbilisi: Otar Karalashvili. 2002. ISBN printed on the cover and in the book (99928-0-302-0) is invalid. Contains both maps with place-names in Georgian.
Georgian	2009	ჰობიტი (Hobitʼi)	Nika Samushia, poems translated by Tsitso Khotsuashvili.	Tbilisi: Bakur Sulakauri Publishing. 2009. ISBN 978-9941403415. Contains both maps with place-names in Georgian. John Howe's illustration on the cover.
German	1957	Kleiner Hobbit und der große Zauberer	Walter Scherf	Recklinghausen: Paulus-Verlag. 1957. Illustrated by Horus Engels.
German	1971	Der kleine Hobbit	Walter Scherf	Georg Bitter. 1971. Revised after the appearance of the Carroux translation of The Lord of the Rings to make the names match.
German	1998	Der Hobbit	Wolfgang Krege	Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, ISBN 3-608-93805-2
Greek	1978	Το Χόμπιτ	A. Gavrielide, Kh. Delegianne	Athens: Kedros, ISBN 960-04-0308-2
Hawaiian	2015	Ka Hopita, a i ʻole, I Laila a Hoʻi Hou mai	R. Keao NeSmith	Portlaoise: Evertype, ISBN 978-1-78201-092-0 (hb), ISBN 978-1-78201-091-3 (pb). Contains both maps with place-names in Hawaiian; the runes are translated into Hawaiian. On the cup in the illustration "Conversations with Smaug" ('Ke Kūkā ʻana me Smaug') the text in Tengwar and initials in runes are translated into Hawaiian.
Hebrew	1976	ההוביט	משה הנעמי (Moshe Hana'ami)
Hebrew	1977	ההוביט או לשם ובחזרה		Ganei-Aviv: Zmora-Bitan (זמורה – ביתן). Contains no maps. Four Israeli combat pilots, held as prisoners of war in Egypt between 1970 and 1973, whiled away their time of captivity by translating "The Hobbit" to Hebrew from a book sent to one of them by family members, via the Red Cross. The pilots' translation was published in Tel-Aviv following their return, and many Israeli critics still consider it the better of the first two Hebrew translations.
Hebrew	2012	ההוביט	יעל אכמון (Yael Achmon)
Hungarian	1975	A babó	Tibor Szobotka, poems translated by István Tótfalusi	ISBN 963-11-0374-9 Reworked in 2006 under the title A hobbit – „Egyszer oda, aztán vissza” by Tamás Füzessy with the introduction and annotations of Douglas A. Anderson (translated by Zsuzsa Ürmössy). (ISBN 963-539-515-9)
Hungarian	2006	A hobbit – Vagy: Oda-vissza	László Gy. Horváth, poems translated by Zsuzsa N. Kiss	This translation was originally published in 2006 with a terminology consistent with that of the Ádám Réz/Árpád Göncz translation of The Lord of the Rings (A Gyűrűk Ura) (ISBN 963-07-8162-X). It uses the old Hungarian alphabet instead of English runes and illustrations by Alan Lee. After the revision of the Hungarian terminology of The Lord of the Rings in 2008, changes were also incorporated into this translation and was republished in 2011 without illustrations and with the English runes restored (ISBN 978-963-07-9336-0).
Icelandic	1978	Hobbitinn	Úlfur Ragnarsson and Karl Ágúst Úlfsson	Reykjavík: Almenna Bókafélagið
Icelandic	1997	Hobbitinn eða út og heim aftur	Þorsteinn Thorarensen	Reykjavík: Fjölvaútgáfan ISBN 9979-58-305-3
Indonesian	1977	Hobbit atau pergi dan kembali	Anton Adiwiyoto	Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Irish	2012	An Hobad, nó, Anonn agus Ar Ais Arís	Nicholas Williams	Cathair na Mart: Evertype, ISBN 978-1-904808-90-9 (hb), ISBN 978-1-78201-033-3 (pb). Contains both maps with place-names in Irish; the runes are translated into Irish. On the cup in the illustration "Conversations with Smaug" ('Ag Comhrá le Smóg') the text in Tengwar and initials in runes are translated into Irish.
Italian	1973	Lo hobbit, o la Riconquista del Tesoro	Elena Jeronimidis Conte	Milan: Adelphi Editions. ISBN 88-459-0688-4. Contains both maps with place-names in Italian; the runes are translated into Italian. Spelling of Smaug changed into "Smog"; the trolls are referred to as "Uomini Neri" ("Black Men").
Italian	2004	Lo Hobbit Annotato	Oronzo Cilli and Elena Jeronimidis Conte	Milan: Bompiani RCS group. ISBN 88-452-3292-1. New translation.
Japanese	1965	ホビットの冒険 (Hobitto no Bōken)	Teiji Seta (瀬田貞二)	Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. (Various editions). Character and place names derived from common English usage tend to be rendered into Japanese, while those invented by Tolkien or difficult to translate are often transliterated directly into katakana spellings. Runes on Thrór's map are left in English, but absent altogether from the title page. Terms used here carry over into the Japanese edition of The Lord of the Rings, translated by Teiji Seta and Akiko Tanaka.
Korean	1979	호비트 (Hobiteu)	김종철 (Kim Jong-cheol)	Yeoleum
Korean	1988	호비트 모험 (Hobiteu Moheom)	공덕용 (Kong Deok-yong)	Seoul : Dongsuh Press
Korean	1989	호비트의 모험 (Hobiteueui Moheom)	최윤정 (Choi Yun-jeong)	Seoul : Changjak-kwa-Bipyongsa. ISBN 8936441035, ISBN 8936441043
Korean	1991	꼬마 호비트의 모험 (Kkoma Hobiteueui Moheom)	이동진 (Lee Dong-jin)	Yeollin. ISBN 8982100911
Korean	1999	호비트 (Hobiteu)	김석희 (Kim Seok-hee)	Seoul : Sigongsa. ISBN 8952705130, ISBN 8952705149
Korean	2002	호빗 (Hobit)	이미애 (Lee Mi-ae)	Seoul : Ssiaseul Ppurineun Saram. ISBN 9788956371078
Latin	2012	Hobbitus ille aut illuc atque rursus retrorsum	Marc Walker	London : HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-744521-9
Latvian	1991	Hobits jeb Turp un atpakaļ	Zane Rozenberga	First edition published in 1991 (ISBN 5-410-00159-1) was large format hardcover children's book and featured high quality original illustrations by Latvian artist Laima Eglīte. Notably elves were pictured as having wings and greenish skin. Second edition was published in 2002 in soft cover (ISBN 9-984-22417-1) and contained traditional black and white illustrations drawn by J.R.R.Tolkien.
Lithuanian	1985	Hobitas, arba Ten ir atgal	Bronė Balčienė
Luxembourgish	2002	Den Hobbit	Henry Wickens	Esch-Sauer : Op der Lay. ISBN 2-87967-099-3. Contains both maps with place-names in Luxembourgish; the runes are translated into Luxembourgish.
Macedonian	2005	Хобитот или до таму и назад	Marija Todorova	Skopje: Feniks ISBN 9989-33-142-1
Marathi	2011	द हॉबिट	Meena Kinikar	Pune: Diamond Publications ISBN 978-81-8483-374-4
Moldavian	1987	Хоббитул (Hobbitul)	Aleksej Tsurkanu	Chişinău: Literatura artistike (translated from Russian)
Norwegian (Bokmål)	1972	Hobbiten, eller fram og tilbake igjen	Finn Aasen and Oddrun Grønvik	Oslo: Tiden Norsk Forlag. ISBN 82-10-00747-5. Contains both maps with place-names in Norwegian; the runes are translated into Norwegian.
Norwegian (Bokmål)	1997	Hobbiten, eller Fram og tilbake igjen	Nils Ivar Agøy	Oslo: Tiden Norsk Forlag. ISBN 82-10-04300-5
Norwegian (Nynorsk)	2008	Hobbiten	Eilev Groven Myhren	Oslo: Tiden Norsk Forlag. ISBN 978-82-10-05038-1
Persian	2002	هابيت (Hābit)	فرزاد فربد (Farzad Farbud)	Tehran: Ketab-e Panjereh 2002 (١٣٨١). ISBN 964-7822-01-4.
Persian	2004	هابيت يا آنجا و بازگشت دوباره (Hābit yā ānjā va bāzgašt dobāre)	رضا عليزاده (Reza Alizadeh)	Tehran: Rowzaneh 2004 (١٣٨٣). ISBN 964-334-200-X. Contains both maps with place-names in Persian; the runes remain in English.
Polish	1960	Hobbit, czyli tam i z powrotem	Maria Skibniewska
Polish	1985	Hobbit, czyli tam i z powrotem	Maria Skibniewska	2nd Polish edition, revised translation
Polish	1997	Hobbit albo tam i z powrotem	Paulina Braiter
Polish	2002	Hobbit, czyli tam i z powrotem	Andrzej Polkowski
Portuguese-Portugal	1962	O Gnomo	Maria Isabel Morna Braga, Mário Braga; il. António Quadros	Porto: Livraria Civilização Editora
Portuguese-Portugal	1985	O Hobbit	Fernanda Pinto Rodrigues	Mem Martins: Publicações Europa-América.
Portuguese-Brazil	1995	O Hobbit ou Lá e de Volta Outra Vez	Lenita Maria Rímoli Esteves	São Paulo: Martins Fontes.
Romanian	1975	O poveste cu un hobbit	Catinca Ralea	Bucharest: Editura Ion Creangă
Russian	1976	Хоббит, или Туда и Обратно	Н. Рахманова (N. Rakhmanova)	Leningrad: Detskaya Literatura. Illustrations by M. Belomlinskij.
Russian	2001	Хоббит, или Туда и Обратно	А.А. Грузберг (A.A. Gruzberg)	Ekaterinburg: Publishing house "Litur" (Издательство «ЛИТУР»). Illustrations by Е. Нитылкина (E. Nitylkina).
Russian	1995	Хоббит, или Туда и Обратно	М. Каменкович, С. Степанов (M. Kamenkovich, S. Stepanov)	Saint Petersburg: Publishing house "Azbuka" (Издательство «Азбука»). Academically annotated edition.
Russian	2000	Хоббит, или Туда и Обратно	Валерия Маторина "В.А.М." (Valeria Matorina, "V.A.M.")	Moscow: Publishing house "EKSMO" (Издательство «ЭКСМО»). Illustrations by И. Панков (I. Pankov).
Russian	2001	Хоббит, или Туда и Обратно	Л. Яхнин (L. Yakhnin)	Moscow: Publishing house "Alfa book" (Издательство «Алфа-книга»).
Russian	1991	Хоббит, или Туда и Обратно	З. Бобырь (Z. Bobyr')	Moscow: Publishing house "Molodaya Gvardiya" (Издательство «Молодая гвардия»).
Russian	2002	Хоббит	К. Королёв, В. Тихомиров (K. Korolev, V. Tikhomirov)	Moscow: Publishing house "Eksmo" (Издательство «Эксмо»).
Russian	2005	Хоббит, или Туда и Обратно	Н. Прохорова, М. Виноградова (N. Prokhorova, M. Vinogradova)	Moscow: Publishing house "Milikon Servis" (Издательство «Миликон Сервис»).
Russian	2003	Хоббит, или Туда и Обратно	И. Тогоева (I. Togoeva)	Moscow: Publishing house "Rosmen" (Издательство «РОСМЭН»).
Serbo-Croatian	1975	Хобит или тамо и назад	Meri and Milan Milišić
Slovak	1973	Hobbit	Viktor Krupa (prose), Jana Šimulčíková (poetry)	Bratislava: Slovenský spisovatel'
Slovak	2002	Hobbit	Otakar Kořínek	Bratislava: SLOVART
Slovene	1986	Hobit ali Tja in spet nazaj	Dušan Ogrizek	Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga
Sorbian	2012	Hobit	Edward Wornar	Leipzig: Institut za Sorabistiku Lipšćanskeje Uniwersity. ISBN 978-1-4716-7712-0
Spanish (Argentina)	1964	El hobito	Teresa Sánchez Cuevas	Buenos Aires: Fabril Editora. His history in spanish.
Spanish (Spain)	1982	El hobbit	Manuel Figueroa	Barcelona: Ediciones Minotauro. ISBN 84-450-7141-6. Contains only Thrór's map with place-names in Spanish; the runes remain in English.
Swedish	1947	Hompen eller En resa Dit och Tillbaks igen	Tore Zetterholm	Stockholm: Kooperativa Förbundets Bokförlag
Swedish	1962	Bilbo – En hobbits äventyr	Britt G. Hallqvist	Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren
Swedish	2007	Hobbiten eller bort och hem igen	Erik Andersson	Stockholm: Norstedts ISBN 978-91-1-301648-1 (green cover) or ISBN 978-91-1-301765-5
Thai	2002	เดอะฮอบบิท	สุดจิต ภิญโญยิ่ง (Sutjit Phin-yo-ying)
Turkish	1996	Hobbit	Esra Uzun
Turkish	2007	Hobbit	Gamze Sari	ISBN 978-975-273-373-2, Publisher: Ithaki Yayinlari, Published: Istanbul, August 2007, Pages: 425
Ukrainian	1985	Гобiт, або Мандрiвка за Iмлистi гори	O. Mokrovolskyi	Kiev: Veselka
Ukrainian	2007	Гобiт, або Туди i звiдти	Olena O'Lir	Lviv: Astrolabia, ISBN 978-966-8657-22-1
Vietnamese	2003			Vietnamese version already completed in 2002 but publishing cancelled. This version leaked onto the Internet in 2003.
Vietnamese	2009	Hobbit ra đi và trở về	Đinh Thị Hương	Hanoi: Thong Tin, no ISBN, EAN-13 8935077068955, maps with placenames in Vietnamese
Vietnamese	2010	anh chàng Hobbit	Nguyên Tâm	Hanoi: Nhã Nam, no ISBN, maps with placenames in Vietnamese
Yiddish	2012	דער האָביט (Der Hobit)	Barry Goldstein בעריש גאָלדשטײן	ISBN 978-1-48117-230-1
Yiddish	2015	Der Hobit, oder, Ahin un Vider Tsurik	Barry Goldstein	Portlaoise: Evertype, ISBN 978-1-78201-120-0 (hb), ISBN 978-1-78201-119-4 (pb). Contains both maps with place-names in Yiddish; the runes are translated into Yiddish. On the cup in the illustration "Conversations with Smaug" ('Shmuesen mit Smaug') the text in Tengwar and initials in runes are translated into Yiddish.

See also

• Translations of The Lord of the Rings

References