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Lord_Iskander (�ber �bersetzungen ins Rum�nische):
I recently read Lord of the rings translated and it pained me to read instead of Rivendell - "Valceaua Despicata" it just doesent sound the same. And of course the mythologies differ if I translate dwarf in Romanian - "pitic" one would rather think of "Snow white and the seven dwarfs" because those kind of dwarfs apear into Romanian mythologies (folklore).

Jeanida_Myrish:
there are some really good translators and they really are a blessing.... for example in Finland there�s Kersti Juva who translated all of Tolkien�s books into finnish... I�ve read the english version and the finnish version and even though some expressions are different and the songs vary, the whole idea of Tolkien�s books can be found... She really is y favorite translator...

Queengodess:
I really admire skilled translators...There is this Swedish one called Peter Lindforss and he's just awesome. He translates the Terry Pratchett books, and if you've read them you understand how hard that must be! All those jokes and play with words...but he does it very well!

The Swedish translation of LOTR is infamous...it's horrible. Truly horrible...! You can't even imagine the disaster...

Enji (�ber Shelob / Kankra):
In Swedish she's called Honmonstret (the She-monster). Stupid name. Anyway, even Tolkien HATED the swedish translation of LOTR (yes, he knew Swedish), so most people in Sweden who like the book read it in English. Luckily, a new translation is on it's way, I just hope it's better... (and don't translate "he stopped dead" to "han hade hejdat d�den", which means "he had stopped death"... just one of many examples from the swedish translation of LOTR.)

I hate bad translations, even though I know how difficult it is to translate something. But I really like it when the translator manages to do something good, and convey the puns or wordplays in the original to the translation.


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