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Posted by shadowfax on May 18, 2000 at 09:33:49 I am interested in hearing from people who have read Tolkien in translation in any language, and who would like to exchange opinions about quality / reccommendability of the various translations. I have not read LoTR from cover to cover in any langauage other than the original, but have read considerable chunks in both German and French. I was pleasantly surprised that the quality of the poetry is excellent iv both cases. This is not necessariy true of the prose. The German text is very good (even though English structures shows through in places, sometimes quite blatantly), although there are some minor inconsistencies in the naming of places which would confuse people reading this text at great depth. The French text has rather more hiccups. The neatest of these is the map of The Hobbit where the word Hobbit has somehow got translated as Lapin. The appendices of LoTR are also riddled with inconsistencies which suggest the translator probably didn't understand what he was writing.
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