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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/27/2020 4:42 PM, SuStel wrote:<br>
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But wait! Tolkien left notes for translators of <i>The Lord of
the Rings</i> on how to deal with all sorts of names.</blockquote>
<p>Here's an even better one:</p>
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<p><i>Crickhollow.</i> A place-name in Buckland. It is meant to be
taken as composed of an obsolete element + the known word <i>hollow.</i>
The <i>-hollow</i> (a small depression in the ground) can be
translated by sense, the <i>crick-</i> retained (in the
spelling of the language of translation).</p>
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<p>There is Tolkien explicitly telling us to transliterate part of
the word and translate the other part. We're not even told what
the <i>crick-</i> means. To render it in Klingon, we get <b>qrIqQemjIqHom.</b><br>
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SuStel
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