But there were others too capable of saying similar things. This certainly was not said by Sauron :)

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Amlach -- or a spy of Morgoth impersonating Amlach -- to the others council of men,

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Correct:) ask on

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We still meet before the end. I give the joy of thee that thou hast more thy bruder finally found. And thou shalt maintained know it: more stabber in darkly, dishonorable at the enemies perfidiously at the friends and on unto malédiction its family members. But the worst of all its feeling shalt the Vertrags thou in thyself.

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Glaurung to Nienor/Niniel

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Exactly right H-I.

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Another way to produce mistranslations is to take quote of some translated piece (here is the Russian one), and translate it back into the language of the original. Once we (me and several of my friends) have had lot of fun thus translating verses to and fro. So, I’m well pleased to present to your attention the quote below:

who, to whom + circumstances

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Re: Another mistranslation

Was that Gandalf to Pippin after he stole the palantir?

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Correct. Compare it now with the original heh:

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Re: Another mistranslation

Very amusing, esp. the Russian version of &quot;the burned hand teaches best&quot;. Ok try this mangled tranlsation:

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> Do ain't something of bone-pate you tin backing she in the name of all wonder do not touch this say furrier anew as lank as you I'm with z hundred mile vis-a-vis thereof bear, not rug, headland, tippet, coupling not as unlike such unfrequented say. <hr></blockquote>

I swear, that's how it came out.


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Re: Another mistranslation

That last one was just TOO garbled -- try this one instead:

There everlasting your naked self will bear the harass of him disdain, penetrated by being eyes, unless she hear me the rule over your tower.


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Re: Another mistranslation

Is that Morgoth talking to Hurin, condemming him to watch his family destroyed? (This is probably wrong, but I thought I'd take a stab at it).

-*-The X Phial-*- You must believe in free will, you have no choice. Isaac Singer</p>

Nay, that's Luthien to Sauron upon Tol Sirion

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Re: Another mistranslation

H-I wins the prize, and can ask the next question. However, I must say that X Phial has a very cool .gif, so he/she wins . . . . Greek kudos.

The original quote was Gandalf to Bilbo before entering Beorn's house (about not using the word &quot;furrier&quot; etc.), which I translated from english to Russian to Polish back to eEglish, thereby destroying all remaining meaning.

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Next one

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Re: Next one...

This is Legolas to Gandalf on Caradhras. But where did that translation come from? It looks like a jigsaw puzzle of the phrases.

Truth will outlast both fact and fiction.</p>

Correct. as for a 'translation', mea culpa, I just replaced the words a bit so to mask the real quote.

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Re: Next one...

Oh, okay. Here's mine. It's a direct translation from the Spanish edition where an expression has been changed (not as colorful as hot milk, I'm afraid<img src=wink.gif ALT=";)"> ).
<blockquote>Quote:<hr> Now the truth will come to light!<hr></blockquote>

Truth will outlast both fact and fiction.</p>

KayQy, I'm giving up :)

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Re: Next one...

Gandalf to Frodo when he throws the ring into the fire?

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Re: Next one...

Hey, I just wanted to bring this thread out of the dark. I know it's against the rules, but KayQ hasn't come back for over 2 months. And there is the One Week Rule backing me up.

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> &quot;Few now remember them, yet some still go wandering, sons of forgotten kings walking in lonliness, guarding from evil things folk that are heedless.&quot;<hr></blockquote>

Who said this, and to whom.


"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."</p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000064>GandaIf The White</A> at: 6/25/01 5:34:04 pm

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Mistranslation?

Was that Gandalf to Frodo, about the Rangers?

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Re: Mistranslation?

No.

http://www.netpulze.com/YaBBImages/u.../HobbitSig.jpgwww.netpulze.com/YaBBImages/uploads/HobbitSig.jpg</a>

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."</p>

Tom muttering to himself

Yet that is not mistranslation, but a direct quote :)

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Re: Mistranslation?

True.. sorry about that H-I. And you are correct.
Sorry for the delay but my DSL connection went down for 2 days.

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."</p>

'Stop him! Don't let him go! ' cried ____
'I wonder? ' said ____. `He is the Bear, and the fate of the bears is on him. I do not think that it is our part to drive him one way or the other. Nor do I think that we should succeed, if we tried. There are other powers at work far stronger.'

The first is Sam and the second is Aragon. Bear?

:D

Bear-bearer

Ask on

I have no good quote right now, so you can ask. I'll be back when I got one.

Here is one directly translated from swedish, it's not very hard but it's diffrent from the original:
(bears again)
who says this and about what?

Is that Bilbo to Dori, trying to clarify his "piece of bacon" comment about how it feels to be carried by an eagle? The original English being, "O no! Not a bit like storks - forks, I mean"?

Right you are.

The punctuation came out rather strange on this one, but it's not too difficult.

that's Sam to Faramir in Ithilien. right quote goes:

Yep! That's it. From English to Chinese and back to English. I like how "sir" translates to "husband".

wow, chinese?

That was Tuor to Voronwe:

-Voronwe

HerenIstarion?

-Voronwë

sorry, a bit preoccupied lately [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

of course that's it. proceed

This shouldn't be too hard:

English->Italien->English->German->English

-Voronwë