Re: Digest of messages 36.53-36.58 (fwd)

On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Steg Belsky wrote:

>On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 01:54:25 -0400 Roger Mills <romilly@...> writes:
>>     Well, I disagree.  One comes as close as one can, within the
>> limits of
>> what one is translating.  In this case a somewhat incantatory poem,
>> that
>> doesn't want to be burdened with footnotes.  A full-scale
>> translation of
>> LOTR to Kash (or even many natlangs) would of course need multiple
>> notes to make Tolkien's world understandable to another culture.
>-
>
>I guess i'm lucky that the Rokbeigalm live in Tolkien's world, then.  :-)
Same here, more or less! It operates under very similar early
circumstances and history.

Padraic.

>-Stephen (Steg)