Browsing this Thread:
1 Anonymous Users
Wolf eyes [Latin translation query] |
||
|---|---|---|
|
Home away from home
 
Joined:
2006/11/24 11:12 Group:
Shirefolk Fellowship Posts:
540
 |
My father in law is translating LotR into Latin, and he has sent me this email -
Have got as far as "The Road to Isengard", and find that glittering eyes watched the riders wanly from the shadows of the banks. "Wanly" seems almost impossible, especially when combined with "glittering". There is no comment from Hammond & Scull. I have translated it "pallidi", but am very unhappy with it. Do you think it could be a misprint for "warily"? I know from bitter experience how easy it is to confuse "ri" and "n"! Any ideas? - wellinghall
Posted on: 2010/5/12 10:39
Edited by Khamûl on 2013/4/24 13:20:14
|
|
 
|
||
Re: Wolf eyes |
||
|---|---|---|
|
Home away from home
Joined:
2007/4/29 5:29 Group:
Shirefolk Fellowship Posts:
579
|
It is wanly - Tolkien knew a lot more about words than most of us; see Shippey's discussion of Treebeard's looking 'sad but not unhappy'. Once, 'Sad' meant 'settled, determined'.
Similarly, there's more than one way to look at 'wan' - see The Ring of Words p.25, fig. 9. 'Its original sense seems to have been 'dark in hue' with especially frequent application to things of gloomy unpleasant associations'.
Posted on: 2010/5/12 13:07
Edited by garm on 2010/5/12 13:25:24
Edited by garm on 2010/5/12 13:26:00 |
|
|
|
||
Re: Wolf eyes |
||
|---|---|---|
|
Home away from home
Joined:
2006/11/24 11:12 Group:
Shirefolk Fellowship Posts:
540
|
Thanks for that, garm.
- wellinghall
Posted on: 2010/5/13 5:28
|
|
|
|
||
Re: Wolf eyes |
||
|---|---|---|
|
Home away from home
Joined:
2007/4/29 5:29 Group:
Shirefolk Fellowship Posts:
579
|
You're welcome - was that useful?
Posted on: 2010/5/13 9:54
|
|
|
|
||
You can view topic.
You cannot start a new topic.
You cannot reply to posts.
You cannot edit your posts.
You cannot delete your posts.
You cannot add new polls.
You can vote in polls.
You cannot attach files to posts.
You cannot post without approval.