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hansl · 11-19-2013, 06:46 AM

Thanks for analysing my teeny perception of LOTR names.

Actually, the Carroux translation is also my favourite one.

Streicher as tramp was not in my mind then. Landstreicher were homeless people with plastic bags to me. BTW Julius Streicher is the name of a Nazi war criminal hanged in Nuremberg. His antisemite agitation was probably too far away from the notion of a tramp to be noticed as a burdon for a hero name. I would probably have used Waldläufer (in the glossary), a ranger in the woods or so.

And thanks for the enlightenment regarding Bag End/Dead End. Funny enough, the German word for dead end, Sackgasse (literally translated to English: bag alley), is closer to Bag End than Carroux's Beutelsend.

hansl

11-19-2013, 06:46 AM	#46
hansl Zealot Posts: 112 Karma: 113786 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Germany Device: Sony PRS-T3S, CoolReader on 4'' Android phone	Thanks for analysing my teeny perception of LOTR names. Actually, the Carroux translation is also my favourite one. Streicher as tramp was not in my mind then. Landstreicher were homeless people with plastic bags to me. BTW Julius Streicher is the name of a Nazi war criminal hanged in Nuremberg. His antisemite agitation was probably too far away from the notion of a tramp to be noticed as a burdon for a hero name. I would probably have used Waldläufer (in the glossary), a ranger in the woods or so. And thanks for the enlightenment regarding Bag End/Dead End. Funny enough, the German word for dead end, Sackgasse (literally translated to English: bag alley), is closer to Bag End than Carroux's Beutelsend. hansl Last edited by hansl; 11-19-2013 at 07:58 AM.