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The situation in Lord of the Rings has an added twist: many of the names are Old English, Anglo-Saxon or even Goth, and the translator faces a choice between le
by inglor_cz 2y ago
The situation in Lord of the Rings has an added twist: many of the names are Old English, Anglo-Saxon or even Goth, and the translator faces a choice between leaving them alone and trying to translate them into Old Czech (Old Slavonic...), Old Finnish or whatever, which will nevertheless change the cultural context.
- 082349872349872 2y ago...and the twist on top of that is that JRRT has already translated the characters' actual names into anglophone cultural equivalents, eg: Maura Labingi Frodo Baggins Banazîr "Ban" Galpsi Samwise "Sam" Gamgee
- triceratops 2y agoWhat an absolute chad.