Tolkiens Arda – Sveriges stora Tolkienforum

In his foreword to the calendar [the official Tolkien Calendar 2016], Brian Sibley suggests that Gollum is the reason Jansson’s illustrations for The Hobbit have never been published in English – or, indeed, even outside of Sweden and Finland – suggesting that the omission of Gollum, who is not present even in the smaller illustrations throughout the calendar despite Jansson also including a smaller illustration of him in the book, was no coincidence.