Monday, June 30, 2008

Where is the Hindi Lord of the Rings?

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In the news this week, the final installment of the Harry Potter heptalogy has been published in Hindi. Which begs the question, why hasn’t...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

WOTD: Obscurum per obscurius

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Okay, this isn’t a single word but rather a phrase. But that’s perfectly acceptable for my occasional Word of the Day posts . Why? Because I...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Chinese — radically different from English!

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Okay, perhaps that’s a rather obvious statement. Ah, but then again, even radical means something else when applied to the Chinese language...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Digging deeper into the Flammifer

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Aah, but how deep is too deep? You tell me. Last week , I wrote about the Flammifer of Westernesse, one of those seemingly innumerable and a...
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Friday, June 20, 2008

¡Olé, Tequila!

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As regular readers will know, I will occasionally take a break from my musings on Tolkien, Lewis, philology, and other deep subjects, to wri...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

The Flammifer of Westerness: From Latin to English to Italian and beyond

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I’m acquainted, to varying degrees, with a few translations of Tolkien’s fiction, and I understand the challenges to producing a successful,...
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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Lem and Le Guin — ‘Two mutually correlated opposites’

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I’ve been following, and to some extent participating in, a discussion over at Jake Seliger’s blog, The Story’s Story , on the subject of sc...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Read the new Harry Potter short story

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I’m coming to this story a little late, but it turns out to be just as well that I waited it out, as you’ll see by the end of the post. In c...
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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Some thoughts on the names, Marcho and Blanco

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It’s always been taken more or less for granted that the two progenitors of the Hobbit settlements in the west of Middle-earth, Marcho and B...
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