As a linguist and philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien used words and languages as a source of inspiration for his subcreation and continuously interwove them with his narratives. With language being so central to his works, the task of translating them into other languages raises numerous problems for the translator. This volume reflects on some of these challenges and how different translators overcame them.
The volume opens with a study that takes a theoretical angle on the problem of translation and considers the applicability of Tolkiens views on the matter in the light of broader translation...

As in the preceding volume (TolkieninTranslation), the studies presented here deal with a wide range of problems and challenges connected with the task of translating Tolkiens work. Contributions do not only discuss aspects of translation into different languages (German, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew), but also offer in-depth analysis of especially difficult areas of translation (names, Tolkiens invented languages). Moreover, with the initial publication of this volume having closely followed the release of the third and final part of the movie in 2003, it could take stock and make a first...

Der Band eroffnet die neue Reihe des Mediavistenverbandes. Im Zentrum stehen die Verhaltnisbestimmungen des Menschen zu Gott, welche die monotheistische mittelalterliche Welt in all ihren Bereichen pragt. Es geht um die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Gottesbild und Menschenbild, Schopfer und Kreatur sowie gottlicher und menschlicher Schopfung. Enthalten sind Beitrage aus Literatur-, Musik- und Kunstwissenschaft.

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For years, Allan G. Turner has contributed to the academic study of the field of Fantasy literature, with special focus on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. His colleagues and friends, in co-operation with Walking Tree Publishers, have thus decided to honour him with a festschrift on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The volume comprises contributions by Tom A. Shippey, Wolfram R. Keller, Andrew Chunky Liston, Julian M. Eilmann, Doreen Triebel, James Fanning, Thomas Honegger, and Dirk Vanderbeke, who explore the various aspects of the creation of secondary worlds in literature medieval to modern....

Der Band versammelt die Vortrage des DTG Tolkien Seminars 2015 (Aachen) sowie zahlreiche Rezensionen von 2014er und 2015er Neuerscheinungen aus der internationalen Tolkien-Forschung. Sprachen: Englisch und Deutsch."