Translating Tolkien
Subtitle: text and film
By: editor, Thomas Honegger.
Contributors: Honegger, Thomas. ed.
Series: Cormarë series -- 6; Cormare series -- no. 6.
Publisher: Walking Tree Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Zurich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Tolkien, J. R. R. -- 1892-1973.; Translating and interpreting.
Description: Twelve essays dealing with the problems and challenges connected with translating Tolkien's work into different languages, as well as into film.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Westron turned into modern English : the translator and Tolkien's web of languages / Thomas Honegger; title: "The new one wants to assimilate the alien." Different interpretations of a source text as a reason for controversy : the 'old' and the 'new' German translation of The lord of the rings / Rainer Nagel; title: The Israeli translation controversy; title: what about and where to? / Danny Orbach (with contributions by Yuval Kfir and Yuval Welis); title: Estne Tolkien latine reddendus? a light-hearted look at some of the challenges / Richard Sturch; title: Dutch Samizdat : the mensink; title: van Warmelo translation of The lord of the rings / Mark T. Hooker; title: The treatment of proper names in the German edition(s) of The lord of the rings as an example of norms in translation practice / Rainer Nagel; title: Tolkien in Swedish translation : from hompen to ringarnas herre / Anders Stenström; title: Tolkien, our judge of Peter Jackson / Vincent Ferrě́; title: Humiliated heroes : Peter Jackson's interpretation of The lord of the rings / Anthony S. Burdge & Jessica Burke; title: The adaptation of The lord of the rings, a critical comment / Øystein Høgset; title: The professor and the director and good vs. evil in Middle-earth / James Dunning; title: The soundtrack lyrics of Peter Jackson's Lord of the rings; title: a legitimate 'translation' of Tolkien? / Alexandra Velten.