New Swedish translation, finally! - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Veon · 02-14-2003, 08:24 PM

There is some information (in Swedish) at the publisher's (P.A. Norstedt & sons) website, http://www.panorstedt.se/Pressrum_Ou...32&ProductID=0.

The translators are Erik Andersson (Nick Hornby, James Ellroy, Jeff Noon, Zadie Smith, Flann O'Brien, Patricia Cornwell) and a poet, Lotta Olsson Anderberg, who most people know from her daily political poems in the newspaper Expressen.
A friend of mine says he read in some newspaper yesterday that Erik Andersson is a something of a Tolkien expert, although I cannot confirm that.

Let's hope their translation will be better than Åke Ohlmarks' interpretation...

And if the translation is bad, then we can just stick to the English version. After all it's quite simple to read - maybe simpler than Ohlmarks' complicated Swedish version. Anyone who masters Ohlmarks' version won't have any problems with Tolkien's version.

Anders

02-14-2003, 08:24 PM	#10
Veon Pile O'Bones Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Luleå, Sweden Posts: 15	There is some information (in Swedish) at the publisher's (P.A. Norstedt & sons) website, http://www.panorstedt.se/Pressrum_Ou...32&ProductID=0. The translators are Erik Andersson (Nick Hornby, James Ellroy, Jeff Noon, Zadie Smith, Flann O'Brien, Patricia Cornwell) and a poet, Lotta Olsson Anderberg, who most people know from her daily political poems in the newspaper Expressen. A friend of mine says he read in some newspaper yesterday that Erik Andersson is a something of a Tolkien expert, although I cannot confirm that. Let's hope their translation will be better than Åke Ohlmarks' interpretation... And if the translation is bad, then we can just stick to the English version. After all it's quite simple to read - maybe simpler than Ohlmarks' complicated Swedish version. Anyone who masters Ohlmarks' version won't have any problems with Tolkien's version. Anders __________________ Tule rato alcarinqua laire, / helwa-ahyala ve falmali culde nandar vaita áre-faire / ar nu aldar liltar ehteli.