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Tolkien Ticked

Friday, February 29th, 2008

In principle I object as strongly as is possible to the ‘translation’ of the nomenclature at all (even by a competent person). I wonder why a translator should think himself called on or entitled to do any such thing. That this is an ‘imaginary’ world does not give him any right to remodel it according to his fancy, even if he could in a few months create a new coherent structure which it took me years to work out. [...] May I say at once that I will not tolerate any similar tinkering with the personal nomenclature. Nor with the name/word Hobbit.

Tolkien, on the progress of the Dutch and Swedish translations of the Lord of the Rings, especially as it related to proper names (via wikipedia).

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Tolkienesque

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Someone at Wikipedia must be a big Middle-earth fan. Yesterday’s featured article was on J. R. R. Tolkien. Last October 5, The Lord of the Rings was the featured article.

There was news a month before all this that J.R.R. Tolkien’s son, Christopher Tolkien, just completed editing The Children of Hurin, an epic started by Tolkien in 1918 which he had later abandoned.

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Another Path

Friday, December 31st, 2004

Rainbow over Fremont
This rainbow came out this morning after rain poured all night long.

In Return of the King, as Gondor was seemingly on the verge of being overtaken by the armies of Mordor, Gandalf comforted Pippin with this description of heaven:

…the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain curtain of this world rolls back and all turns to silver glass. And then you see it… white shores, and beyond, the far green country under a swift sunrise.

Looking forward to a bright New Year. I wish you all the best.

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