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Old 04-28-2003, 07:32 AM   #18
Melephelwen
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I think there's quite a few different Danish translations (or just editions, I'm not 100 % sure,) and I've read 3. As I haven't read LotR in English yet, (they're on the shelf to be read when I finished Silm.) I can't tell about expressions and so, but I probably wouldn't have noticed, as at least the 3rd edition was very poor grammatically.
I can't find one right now, but an example would be "Sam, kom med besvær. til sig selv, som han lå på, jorden." ("Sam, roused himself. painfully from the, ground") It's quite interesting to see how many ,'s you can put in a sentence, but it can get a bit annoying...
I read UT in English (of course) and that was a lot better to me than LotR had ever seemed, so that makes me guess that the Danish translation isn't that good. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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