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Band 59:: Turner, Allan: Translating Tolkien. Philological Elements in The Lord of the Rings. 213 S. - Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Wien: Lang, 2005.
ISBN: 3-631-53517-1

Alternatives Medium:: E-Book (PDF). Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Wien: Lang. ISBN: 978-3-653-01058-9

The literary works of J. R. R. Tolkien, especially The Lord of the Rings, are marked by their author's professional interest in the history of English. This study shows how philological features such as nomenclature, archaism and echoes of Old English poetic forms have been reflected in a selection of published translations into Germanic and Romance languages. It demonstrates how current translation theory based on a hermeneutic approach can explain translators' compensation techniques such as the use of analogous historical resources in the target languages, and how these can preserve literary and poetic effects. In doing so, it also offers a survey of characteristic stylistic features in the source text.

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1.	Introduction	S. 11
2.	Tolkien, philology and literary criticism	S. 23
3.	Theoretical aspects of translating Tolkien	S. 45
4.	Philology and linguistic structure in the names	S. 77
5.	Names in Bree and Rohan	S. 107
6.	Philology an archaism	S. 129
7.	Philology, world view and anachronism	S. 155
8.	Afterword	S. 179

Appendix		S. 195
Bibliography		S. 203

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1.	Introduction		S. 11
1.1.		Background to the research	S. 11
1.2.		Aims of the project	S. 12
1.3.		The philological element	S. 14
1.4.		Defining philology	S. 16
1.5.		The hermeneutic approach	S. 17
1.6.		The scope of the research	S. 20
1.7.		The presentation	S. 21
2.	Tolkien, philology and literary criticism		S. 23
2.1.		Tolkien and literary theory	S. 23
2.2.		Tolkien criticism and the philological element	S. 25
2.3.		Creation from philology	S. 29
2.4.		Language, myth and metaphor: Barfield	S. 33
2.5.		Paratext, pseudotranslation and narrative voice	S. 34
2.6.		Germanic and Romance	S. 40
2.7.		Overview: The philological elements	S. 42
3.	Theoretical aspects of translating Tolkien		S. 45
3.1.		Tolkien on translation	S. 45
3.2.		Review of articles on translations of Tolkien	S. 50
3.3.		The general model of translation	S. 54
3.4.		Stages A and D – external constraints	S. 56
3.5.		Stage B – understanding the literary text	S. 58
3.6.		The text-world	S. 61
3.7.		Stage C – creating the target text	S. 64
3.8.		Foreignising and domesticating translation	S. 65
3.9.		Translation as a decision-making process	S. 70
3.10.		Translation strategies and techniques	S. 74
3.11.		Overview	S. 75
4.	Philology and linguistic structure in the names		S. 77
4.1.		Names and literary convention	S. 77
4.2.		The Guide, degrees of translucency and translation strategies	S. 81
4.3.		Presentation	S. 85
4.4.		The Shire: Establishing the familiar	S. 86
4.5.		The legacy of The Hobbit	S. 86
4.6.		Shire place-names	S. 88
4.7.		Overview of Shire place-names	S. 92
4.8.		Shire personal names	S. 93
4.9.		Punning family names	S. 94
4.10.		Opaque family names	S. 98
4.11.		Shire forenames	S. 99
4.12.		Forenames and family names together	S. 103
4.13.		The word Hobbit	S. 104
4.14.		Overview of Shire names	S. 105
5.	Names in Bree and Rohan		S. 107
5.1.		Introduction	S. 107
5.2.		The Bree/Buckland substratum	S. 107
5.3.		Rohan: foreign but familiar	S. 112
5.4.		Place-names in Rohan	S. 113
5.5.		Transparent names	S. 115
5.6.		Translucent names	S. 116
5.7.		The opaque elements	S. 117
5.8.		A legendary landscape	S. 120
5.9.		Personal names in Rohan	S. 124
5.10.		Invented languages and the target language	S. 126
5.11.		Overview	S. 127
6.	Philology an archaism		S. 129
6.1.		Introduction	S. 129
6.2.		Archaism and translation studies	S. 130
6.3.		Tolkien and literary use of archaism	S. 133
6.4.		Levels on analysis and norms	S. 135
6.5.		Archaism in lexis	S. 137
6.6.		Archaism in compounding	S. 141
6.7.		Archaism in syntax and information structure	S. 144
6.8.		Fronting and linguistic patterning	S. 146
6.9.		Compensation techniques	S. 150
6.10.		Overview	S. 153
7.	Philology, world view and anachronism		S. 155
7.1.		Poems and songs	S. 155
7.2.		Poetry of the Shire	S. 157
7.3.		Poetry of Rohan	S. 159
7.4.		Proverbs and alliterative patterning	S. 165
7.5.		The negative approach to the pre-modern	S. 167
7.6.		Anachronism and cultural references	S. 168
7.7.		Anachronism and mental concepts	S. 174
7.8.		Overview	S. 176
8.	Afterword		S. 179
8.1.		Achieving the main aims	S. 179
8.2.		The subsidiary aims: wider implications	S. 182
8.3.		The role of the Guide	S. 185
8.4.		Verisimilitude and consistency	S. 188
8.5.		Further research	S. 192
8.6.		Conclusion	S. 193

Appendix			S. 195
Bibliography			S. 203

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