Tolkien in Translation

Tolkien in Translation PDF Author: Thomas Honegger
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ISBN: 9783905703153
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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As a linguist and philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien used words and languages as a source of inspiration for his subcreation and continuously interwove them with his narratives. With language being so central to his works, the task of translating them into other languages raises numerous problems for the translator. This volume reflects on some of these challenges and how different translators overcame them.The volume opens with a study that takes a theoretical angle on the problem of translation and considers the applicability of Tolkien's views on the matter in the light of broader translation theory. The subsequent contributions look at the translations of Tolkien's works into various languages (Norwegian, Spanish, French, Russian and Esperanto). The study of the Russian translation focuses on the underground circulation of unapproved versions (samizdat) during the time that they were banned in the Soviet Union, and compares the different approaches of the various translators.The theme of this book is continued in a second volume, Translating Tolkien: Text and Film, available as number 6 in the Cormare Series from Walking Tree Publishers.

Tolkien in Translation

Tolkien in Translation PDF Author: Thomas Honegger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783905703153
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Book Description
As a linguist and philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien used words and languages as a source of inspiration for his subcreation and continuously interwove them with his narratives. With language being so central to his works, the task of translating them into other languages raises numerous problems for the translator. This volume reflects on some of these challenges and how different translators overcame them.The volume opens with a study that takes a theoretical angle on the problem of translation and considers the applicability of Tolkien's views on the matter in the light of broader translation theory. The subsequent contributions look at the translations of Tolkien's works into various languages (Norwegian, Spanish, French, Russian and Esperanto). The study of the Russian translation focuses on the underground circulation of unapproved versions (samizdat) during the time that they were banned in the Soviet Union, and compares the different approaches of the various translators.The theme of this book is continued in a second volume, Translating Tolkien: Text and Film, available as number 6 in the Cormare Series from Walking Tree Publishers.

Translating Tolkien

Translating Tolkien PDF Author: Allan Turner
Publisher: DASK ¿ Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
ISBN: 9783631535172
Category : Ciencia ficción inglesa
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The literary works of J. R. R. Tolkien, especially The Lord of the Rings, are marked by their author's professional interest in the history of English. This study shows how philological features such as nomenclature, archaism and echoes of Old English poetic forms have been reflected in a selection of published translations into Germanic and Romance languages. It demonstrates how current translation theory based on a hermeneutic approach can explain translators' compensation techniques such as the use of analogous historical resources in the target languages, and how these can preserve literary and poetic effects. In doing so, it also offers a survey of characteristic stylistic features in the source text.

Translating Tolkien

Translating Tolkien PDF Author: Thomas Honegger
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ISBN: 9783905703160
Category : Translating and interpreting
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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As in the preceding volume (TolkieninTranslation), the studies presented here deal with a wide range of problems and challenges connected with the task of translating Tolkien's work. Contributions do not only discuss aspects of translation into different languages (German, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew), but also offer in-depth analysis of especially difficult areas of translation (names, Tolkien's invented languages). Moreover, with the initial publication of this volume having closely followed the release of the third and final part of the movie in 2003, it could take stock and make a first assessment of Jackson's achievement (or failure). Five out of twelve contributions united in this volume thus deal with the movie under the aspect of 'translation'. The preceding volume, Tolkien in Translation, is available as number 4 in the Cormare Series from Walking Tree Publishers.

The Book of Jonah

The Book of Jonah PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Beowulf

Beowulf PDF Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544442784
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 445

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Presents the prose translation of the Old English epic that Tolkien created as a young man, along with selections from lectures on the poem he gave later in life and a story and poetry he wrote in the style of folklore on the poem's themes.

The Old English Exodus

The Old English Exodus PDF Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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"The Old English Exodus is based on full notes for a series of lectures delivered to a special class in Oxford in the 1930s and 1940s; the notes were retouched in the following decade. It was never intended to be an edition, although the lecturer scrupulously drew up and edited text as basis of his commentary. It is an interpretation of the poem, designed to reconstruct the original (as far as that is possible), and to place it in the context of Old English poetry"--Publisher's description

Tolkien Through Russian Eyes

Tolkien Through Russian Eyes PDF Author: Mark T. Hooker
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Tolkien Through Russian Eyes examines the sociological impact of the translation and publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's works in post-Soviet Russia. After 70 years of obligatory State atheism, when the Soviet Union collapsed, Russian society began actively seeking new sets of spiritual values. The Christian-like doctrine of Tolkienism has attracted a substantial following. During the Soviet era, The Lord of the Rings was a banned book, which was translated independently by a number of underground translators. The result of this is that there are numerous contemporary published translations competing with each other for the reader's attention. There are 10 translations of The Lord of the Rings; 9 translations of The Hobbit and 6 translations of The Silmarillion. Each translator has a slightly different approach to the text. Each translation has a slightly different interpretation of Tolkien. Each translator has a different story to tell. Most of the existing translations are only Tolkienesque, they are not really Tolkienian. They have been adapted to the Russian mental climate. This book relates the history of the publication of Tolkien's works; examines the philosophical distortions introduced by the competing translations, attempts to explain their origins and how they will be perceived by the Russian reader. No knowledge of Russian is necessary. Mr. Hooker's articles on Tolkien have been published in the specialist periodical press in English, in Dutch and in Russian. The results of his research have been presented at a number of conferences, both in the United States and in Holland.

The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays

The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays PDF Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth

The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth PDF Author: Ruth S. Noel
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780395291306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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This is the book on all of Tolkien's invented languages, spoken by hobbits, elves, and men of Middle-earth -- a dicitonary of fourteen languages, an English-Elvish glossary, all the runes and alphabets, and material on Tolkien the linguist.

A Gateway to Sindarin

A Gateway to Sindarin PDF Author: David Salo
Publisher: University of Utah Press
ISBN: 0874808006
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 455

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A serious linguistic analysis of Tolkien's Sindarin language. Includes the grammar, morphology, and history of the language.