Translation mistakes

[Aethelwine]

well it seems we dutchies are the lucky ones!

Yeah, the dutch translation is a good one, only the changing of "Baggins" to "Balings" seems a bit odd and not nessecary at all!

You bet, we're very lucky! I have two copy's of 'In de Ban van de Ring', an old and a new one. There both very well done (I've compared them with my English one). There's no real difference betweem them, save for the old-Dutch in the old one (something I actually like... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] )
Oh, and I also happen to like the name Balings... :P
I mean, think about it. What if people would try to pronounce ‘Baggins’ the Dutch way… It would sound rather stupid, don’t you think so? A lot like ‘bagger’ IMO, not a very good connection, now is it…

as our translator kept contact with Tolkien during his translation, Tolkien was able to steer him, and improve some of the greater mistakes.

He did?? [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] Wow, I didn't know that...

Navaer,

Aethelwine

[ September 07, 2003: Message edited by: Aethelwine ]