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Mumak o' Harad · 02-25-2005, 02:12 PM

Hello, Middle Earth lovers! I am Mumak o' Harad and I am a Brazilian fan of Tolkien.

As many of you, I have only acknowledged Tolkien's work after the release of the first movie (after all, Brazil is a Portuguese language speaking country and we have a vast literature in our own language which concerns to our particular culture).

Notwithstanding, I was astounded by the inconceivable world and characters created by Master Tolkien and after watching "The Fellowship of the Ring", I decided to get deeper into the story and read the Portuguese translation of the first book, but I was a bit disappointed, because the translation is terrible (they even changed the names of the characters/places, for example: Rivendell is "Valfenda", Strider is "Passolargo" can you believe it?) and, therefore, I decided to buy the original English books and was delighted to read them.

I am reading them for the second time and I have been anonymously visiting the Barrow-downs for some time and loved the high level discussions (especially the Chapter-by-chapter threads).

I hope I can join you (despite my bad english, of course) and learn more from Tolkien and his state-of-art books.

Best regards,

Mumak o' Harad

02-25-2005, 02:12 PM	#1069
Mumak o' Harad Pile O'Bones Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Brazil Posts: 12	Hello, Middle Earth lovers! I am Mumak o' Harad and I am a Brazilian fan of Tolkien. As many of you, I have only acknowledged Tolkien's work after the release of the first movie (after all, Brazil is a Portuguese language speaking country and we have a vast literature in our own language which concerns to our particular culture). Notwithstanding, I was astounded by the inconceivable world and characters created by Master Tolkien and after watching "The Fellowship of the Ring", I decided to get deeper into the story and read the Portuguese translation of the first book, but I was a bit disappointed, because the translation is terrible (they even changed the names of the characters/places, for example: Rivendell is "Valfenda", Strider is "Passolargo" can you believe it?) and, therefore, I decided to buy the original English books and was delighted to read them. I am reading them for the second time and I have been anonymously visiting the Barrow-downs for some time and loved the high level discussions (especially the Chapter-by-chapter threads). I hope I can join you (despite my bad english, of course) and learn more from Tolkien and his state-of-art books. Best regards, Mumak o' Harad __________________ "We are jigsaw pieces aligned on the perimeter edge Interlocked through a missing piece..." by Derek Dick (a.k.a. Fish) Last edited by Mumak o' Harad; 02-25-2005 at 02:19 PM.