The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[nana77]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Maybe only the Silmarillion, which was completed and he had submitted before his death.

I'm not convinced about all the edited works based on his notes that Christopher has released.

The "Prelude to Dune trilogy" and several others are written by Frank Herbert's son Brian, within Anderson (I recall having bought it just by looking at its thickness, then realized it was a slighty different thing); iirc it was made from some notes found several years after the Frank's departure.
Not to mention several works by Howard, also:

The Conan stories were increasingly edited by de Camp and the series was extended by pastiches until they replaced the original stories. In response, a puristic movement grew up demanding Howard's original, un-edited stories. The first boom ended in the mid-1980s. In the late 1990s and early 21st century, the "Second Howard Boom" occurred

*I didn't knew he made also "historical stories": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert...orical_stories

[nana77]

Did not understood why on almost all the translations from the serie I'm reading (Libra Editrice, most published around the '70s), mostly translated by Roberta Rambelli (which is great), she choosed the word "magazzeno" instead the usual "magazzino" (as for warehouse).
Now got it but the site that explains it already says it's unusual, as it's not a synonymous, but a regional (almost settentrional) variation, barely used in writtings.
It says the latin medieval word was yet magazenum, but changed within a french and then english interpositions.
Fun, btw, that she wrote several novels, within a male's pen name, which was the use on that period (on SF's genre).

Rocky Docson, Hunk Hanover, Joe C. Karpati, Jgor Latychev, R. R., John Rainbell, A. Robert

[nana77]

*from the latest translation in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
This is the literal retranslation in english, e.g. what I do understand from the writings:

On the other bed, his wife Iran opened her eyes, grey and offs, flicked the eyelids and within a sob she closed them again

literally:

Nell'altro letto, anche sua moglie Iran apri' gli occhi, grigi e spenti, batte' le palpebre e con un gemito li richiuse.

The original, in "Blade Runner", as DADoES

Now, in her bed, his wife Iran opened her gray, unmerry eyes, blinked, then groaned and shut her eyes again.

The previous italian translation version mentions "unmarried" as "something else than jovial", this newest version just skipped it.
Well, "unmerry eyes, of a wife, in her bed", is quite a niche thing to say (great, Philip Dick) .

[Courant]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Maybe only the Silmarillion, which was completed and he had submitted before his death.

I'm not convinced about all the edited works based on his notes that Christopher has released.

Christopher edited the Silmarillion, which wasn't totally completed. The posthumous works of Tolkien included stories, poems and essays which were completed and some published elsewhere as well as uncompleted works. Not all of them have to do with Middle Earth.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Courant

Christopher edited the Silmarillion, which wasn't totally completed. The posthumous works of Tolkien included stories, poems and essays which were completed and some published elsewhere as well as uncompleted works. Not all of them have to do with Middle Earth.

The Silmarilion had been submitted by JRR to the publisher and returned. It was complete, though the publisher wanted some changes. I've no doubt Christopher edited it.

The rest of the Christopher edits of unpublished Middle Earth stuff may not have been stuff that JRR had ever intended to be other than notes. IMO they detract from the main 3 Middle Earth works JRR did submit.