J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit has been translated into many languages. Known translations, with their first date of publication, are:
Language Year Title Translator Illustrator Notes Afrikaans 2017 Janie Oosthuysen Pretoria: Protea Boekhuis Albanian 2005 Maklen Misha Tirana: Shtëpia e Librit & Komunikit Arabic 2008 () (Hisham Fahmy - May Ghanim) Dokki, Giza: Dar Lila (No ISBN) Armenian 1984 () Emma Makarian Yerevan. Translated from the Russian translation by N. Rakhmanova. Uses the Belomlinskij illustrations from the Rakhmanova Russian edition. Armenian 2014 () Nune Torosyan. Edited by Zaven Boyajyan. Yerevan. Maps are also translated. Asturian 2014 Miguel Gallego Gómez Gijón. Published by Ediciones Terrier. . Belarusian 2002 () K. Kurchankova and D. Magilevtsav Minsk. Contains both maps with place-names in Belarusian, based on the Belomlinskij Russian maps. Belarusian 2025 () F. Korzun Basque 2008 Sergio Ibarrola and Xabier Olarra Pamplona: Igela Argitaletxea. . Maps with place-names in English Bengali 2011 () Aniruddha Margao: CinnamonTeal. .Breton 2001 Alan Dipode Argenteuil: Éditions Arda. . Contains both maps with place-names in Breton; the runes are translated into Breton. 2020 Revised by Alan Dipode and Joshua Tyra Dundee: Evertype. (hb), (pb). Revised and corrected edition. Breton maps, runes, and captions by Michael Everson. Contains both maps with place-names in Breton; the runes are translated into Breton. Includes all of Tolkien's illustrations with Breton captions. On the cup in the illustration "Conversations with Smaug" ('') the text in Tengwar and initials in runes are translated into Breton. Includes glossaries and translators' notes. Bulgarian 1975 () Красимира Тодорова (Krasimira Todorova) Peter Chouklev Sofia: Narodna Mladezh (София, "Народна младеж"). Verse translations by Assen Todorov (Асен Тодоров). Catalan 1983 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). . 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. Simplified Chinese 2002 魔戒前传: 霍比特人(Mojie qianzhuan: Huobiteren) 李尧 (Li Yao) Nanjing: Yilin Press. 2000. Simplified Chinese 2013 霍比特人(Huobiteren) 吴刚 (Wu Gang) Shanghai: Shiji Wenjing; Shanghai People's Publishing House. 2013. authorized by the Tolkien EstateCornish2014 Nicholas Williams Cathair na Mart: Evertype, (hb), (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 Zlatko Crnković (See also Serbo-Croatian, below) Czech 1979 František Vrba Jiří Šalamoun Prague: Odeon. In book translation credited for political reasons to Lubomír Dorůžka. Danish 1969 Ida Nyrop Ludvigsen J. R. R. Tolkien Copenhagen: Gyldendal. 1969. No maps. Danish 2012 Jakob Levinsen Copenhagen: Gyldendal. 2012. . Dutch 1960 Max Schuchart Utrecht/Antwerpen: Het Spectrum. 1960. No maps. Esperanto 2000 Christopher Gledhill, poems translated by William Auld Kaliningrad: Sezonoj. Rereleased in 2005. Runes are translated to Esperanto. Esperanto2015 Christopher Gledhill, poems translated by William Auld Portlaoise: Evertype, (hb), (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 Lia Rajandi (prose and poems), Harald Rajamets (poems) Maret Kernumees Tallinn: Eesti raamat Faroese 1990 Hobbin ella út og heim aftur Axel Tórgarð Hoyvík: Stíðin. Both maps translated into Faroese. The runic text was replaced with (Faroese) medieval dotted runes and translated into Faroese. Tolkien's pictures left as they were, Faroese translation added below. Finnish 1973 Risto Pitkänen Tove Jansson (from 1962 Swedish edition) Helsinki: Tammi Finnish 1985 Kersti Juva J. R. R. Tolkien Helsinki: Werner Söderström. Later edition of 2003 illustrated by Tove Jansson (from 1962 Swedish edition) with her illustrations. French 1969, 1976 Francis Ledoux De Chica, in 1976 edition Paris: Le Livre de Poche. 2002. . Contains both maps with place-names in French; the runes remain in English. French 2012 Daniel Lauzon Paris: Christian Bourgois éditeur. 2012. . Contains both maps with place-names in French; the runes are translated. West Frisian 2009 Anne Tjerk Popkema Leeuwarden: Uitgeverij Elikser. 2009. . Gaelic 2025 “A' Hobat” Moray Watson Galician 2000 Moisés R. Barcia Vigo: Edicións Xerais de Galicia Georgian 2002 () 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 () Nika Samushia, poems translated by Tsitso Khotsuashvili. Tbilisi: Bakur Sulakauri Publishing. 2009. . Contains both maps with place-names in Georgian. John Howe's illustration on the cover. German 1957 Walter Scherf Horus Engels Recklinghausen: Paulus-Verlag. 1957. German 1967, 1971 Walter Scherf Klaus Ensikat Georg Bitter. 1971. Revised after the appearance of the Carroux translation of The Lord of the Rings to make the names match. German 1998 Wolfgang Krege Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, Greek 1978 () A. Gavrielide, Kh. Delegianne Athens: Kedros, Hawaiian2015 Ka Hopita, a i ʻole, I Laila a Hoʻi Hou mai R. Keao NeSmith Portlaoise: Evertype, (hb), (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 () (Moshe Hana'ami) Hebrew 1977 () J. R. R. Tolkien Ganei-Aviv: Zmora-Bitan (). 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 () (Yael Achmon) Hungarian 1975 Tibor Szobotka, poems translated by István Tótfalusi Tamás Szecskó Reworked in 2006 under the title by Tamás Füzessy with the introduction and annotations of Douglas A. Anderson (translated by Zsuzsanna Ürmössy). () Hungarian 2006 László Gy. Horváth, poems translated by Zsuzsa N. Kiss Alan Lee 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 () (). It uses the old Hungarian alphabet instead of English runes.
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 (). Icelandic 1978 Úlfur Ragnarsson and Karl Ágúst Úlfsson Reykjavík: Almenna Bókafélagið Icelandic 1997 Þorsteinn Thorarensen Reykjavík: Fjölvaútgáfan Indonesian 1977 Anton Adiwiyoto Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama Irish2012 Nicholas Williams Cathair na Mart: Evertype, (hb), (pb). Contains both maps with place-names in Irish; the runes are translated into Irish. On the cup in the illustration "Conversations with Smaug" ('') the text in Tengwar and initials in runes are translated into Irish. Italian 1973 Elena Jeronimidis Conte Milan: Adelphi Editions. . 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"); "Carrock" translated as "Carroccia" (from the Italian "roccia", "rock"). Italian 2004 Lo Hobbit annotato Oronzo Cilli and Elena Jeronimidis Conte Jemina Catlin Milan: Bompiani. New translation, first published as Douglas A. Anderson's annotated edition (; ) but later also as normal editions (illustrated by Alan Lee: : ). Paperback editions translate runes, hardback editions do not. Maps use translations from the Adelphi edition. Japanese 1965 Ryuichi Terashima 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. Japanese 2012 J. R. R. Tolkien Tokyo: Hara Shobō. Translation of The Annotated Hobbit. Maps in Japanese. Tolkien's illustrations are used, with English captions. Notes by Douglas Anderson (in Japanese). Written in the polite -masu form. Kazakh 2023 Хоббит немесе Барып-қайту (Хоббит немесе Барып-қайту) А. Бозбаева (A. Bozbayeva) Astana: Foliant (No ISBN). 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. , Korean 1991 꼬마 호비트의 모험 (Kkoma Hobiteueui Moheom) 이동진 (Yee Dong-jin) Yeollin. Korean 1999 호비트 (Hobiteu) 김석희 (Kim Seok-hee) Seoul: Sigongsa. , Korean 2002 호빗 (Hobit) 이미애 (Yee Mi-ae) Seoul: Ssiaseul Ppurineun Saram. Korean 2021 호빗 (Hobit) 이미애 (Yee Mi-ae) Seoul: Arte. Latin 2012 Hobbitus ille aut illuc atque rursus retrorsum Marc Walker London: HarperCollins. Latvian 1991 Hobits jeb Turp un atpakaļ Zane Rozenberga Laima Eglīte First edition published in 1991 (), a large format hardcover with original illustrations. Notably, elves were pictured as having wings and greenish skin.