skua<p>1/?</p><p>It's tempting to think that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Baroque" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Baroque</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DerivativeWorks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DerivativeWorks</span></a> are a thing of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/21stCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>21stCentury</span></a>.</p><p>And then within hours of tripping over the whimsical illustrations by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToveJansson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToveJansson</span></a> for a 1962 Swedish translation of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheHobbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheHobbit</span></a> you, or more precisely, I, find a 1968 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> radio play adaptation of The Hobbit that, I kid you not, seems to have <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpikeMilligan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpikeMilligan</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Moriarty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moriarty</span></a> character from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheGoons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGoons</span></a> playing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gandolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gandolf</span></a>, and the dwarves sounding more like cherubs.</p>