Oxonmoot 2024

"Most of Tolkien's works have been translated into Spanish starting in 1978. Their Spanish publisher, Ediciones Minotauro, decided two years ago to undergo a humongous project: to revise, edit and correct all the Spanish translations of Tolkien's works published several decades ago. The first book to be revised was ""The Silmarillion"", and this task continues up to this year, when the first volumes of ""The History of Middle-Earth"" will be released.
In this presentation, I will uncover some bizarre, curious, funny and even absurd examples from these translations that millions of Spanish-speaking people have read for generations (and, literally thousands of revised terms after, have become a new and surprising text to rediscover).
Come with me to this Unexpected Reunion where we will try to read the Ring inscription upside down, Galadriel dies in Middle-Earth, we find red willows and porcupines and lobsters, the Moon rises in the West and we hear the call of Helm Ironhand's horn..."