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decent translation, still a great book.
10 April 2007
By P. Horton
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I must admit at the outset that I haven't finished reading the German translation yet (I'm referring to the paperback here), but so far it's as fun a read as the English. I've had a couple minor issues with the translation so far, but they're fairly trivial and may be perfectly justified by parts farther on in the book.
I really enjoy reading English-language books in translation (from Watership Down to Red Dragon) and have also read a good deal of German lit in English, and as translations go this seems to have lost little of the "feel" of Tolkien. That means it can be both dense and playful at once without being tiring. A masterful "Erzählung" in any language (that I can read, at least)!
I really enjoy reading English-language books in translation (from Watership Down to Red Dragon) and have also read a good deal of German lit in English, and as translations go this seems to have lost little of the "feel" of Tolkien. That means it can be both dense and playful at once without being tiring. A masterful "Erzählung" in any language (that I can read, at least)!
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Same Great Story, Great New Way to Learn
18 Jun 2009
By Dragon Quill
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Format:Paperback
As a student of the fabulous German language, but also as a fanatical Fantasy fan, a translation of The Hobbit proved the perfect way to practice my German, all while enjoying one of the best adventure stories ever written.
The familiarity of the storyline and a general knowledge of how the story is supposed to go allows one who is not entirely fluent in German to navigate the text fairly easily. One might say, however, that this is true of any popular story one reads in a foreign language... but that is unfortunately not true.
Take Harry Potter, which I own in German, but which does not help me at all. Rowling's writing style is sparser and blunter (neither a good nor bad thing) than Tolkien's, and thus while reading Sorcerer's Stone, I found myself reading what I knew *should* have been there rather than absorbing new words and understanding how the language works.
This translation of The Hobbit, by contrast, doesn't afford one the luxury of just skimming over the words and thinking up the words that should have been there. There simply isn't enough dialogue to make that happen.
As for the quality of the translation itself, I can't really speak. Is it as good as the English version? Naturally not. Very few texts are better in translation. However, none of the fun of this adventure story is lost.
So better your German...the Hobbit way.
The familiarity of the storyline and a general knowledge of how the story is supposed to go allows one who is not entirely fluent in German to navigate the text fairly easily. One might say, however, that this is true of any popular story one reads in a foreign language... but that is unfortunately not true.
Take Harry Potter, which I own in German, but which does not help me at all. Rowling's writing style is sparser and blunter (neither a good nor bad thing) than Tolkien's, and thus while reading Sorcerer's Stone, I found myself reading what I knew *should* have been there rather than absorbing new words and understanding how the language works.
This translation of The Hobbit, by contrast, doesn't afford one the luxury of just skimming over the words and thinking up the words that should have been there. There simply isn't enough dialogue to make that happen.
As for the quality of the translation itself, I can't really speak. Is it as good as the English version? Naturally not. Very few texts are better in translation. However, none of the fun of this adventure story is lost.
So better your German...the Hobbit way.
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Awesome!!!
2 Oct 2012
By SEH
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Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Just had to say thank you very much for the great condition of the book, we are a bilingual family and are looking forward to always having a copy of The Hobbit in English and German!... Fast shipping, great service.
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