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Tolkien in Translation, and: Translating Tolkien: Text and Film (review)

Tolkien in Translation, and: Translating Tolkien: Text and Film (review) Book Reviews Tolkien in Translation, edited by Thomas Honegger. Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers, 2003. 152 pp. 23.50 (trade paperback) ISBN 3952142468. Cormarë Series no. 4. Translating Tolkien: Text and Film, edited by Thomas Honegger. Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers, 2004. 243 pp. 23.50 (trade paperback) ISBN 3952142492. Cormarë Series no. 6. Traduttore traditore, say the Italians; or, to put it less cryptically, of necessity a translation is to some extent an act of betrayal. Or if it is not quite betrayal, deception, albeit a deception in which the reader is complicit: a text disguised as belonging to a different language and culture from that in which it is written. This has its dangers; for instance, in rendering the speech of a nineteenth century French aristocrat it is often difficult to avoid the opposed dangers of making him sound either like a bluff English squire or a Greenwich Village phony (with Proust, the latter is the main trap). Foreign translations of Byron tend to make him seem more refined than his style justifies. And so on. Then there is the matter of adaptation, i.e. transferring something composed in one medium into another, usually from book to some sort of drama, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tolkien Studies West Virginia University Press

Tolkien in Translation, and: Translating Tolkien: Text and Film (review)

Doughan, David
Tolkien Studies , Volume 3 (1) – May 9, 2006
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Book Reviews Tolkien in Translation, edited by Thomas Honegger. Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers, 2003. 152 pp. 23.50 (trade paperback) ISBN 3952142468. Cormarë Series no. 4. Translating Tolkien: Text and Film, edited by Thomas Honegger. Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers, 2004. 243 pp. 23.50 (trade paperback) ISBN 3952142492. Cormarë Series no. 6. Traduttore traditore, say the Italians; or, to put it less cryptically, of necessity a translation is to some extent an act of betrayal. Or if it is not quite betrayal, deception, albeit a deception in which the reader is complicit: a text disguised as belonging to a different language and culture from that in which it is written. This has its dangers; for instance, in rendering the speech of a nineteenth century French aristocrat it is often difficult to avoid the opposed dangers of making him sound either like a bluff English squire or a Greenwich Village phony (with Proust, the latter is the main trap). Foreign translations of Byron tend to make him seem more refined than his style justifies. And so on. Then there is the matter of adaptation, i.e. transferring something composed in one medium into another, usually from book to some sort of drama,

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