Rc – Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings – ### – Appendix F – On Translation
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Orcs and Trolls
spoke as they would,
without love of words or things;
and their language was actually
more degraded and filthy
than I have shown it. […]
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Orcs and Trolls
spoke as they would,
without love of words or things;
and their language was actually
more degraded and filthy
than I have shown it. […]
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«A great Shadow
has departed,»
said Gandalf.
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LotR – 6 – 04 – The Field of Cormallen – LR 6 IV
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Tolkien
nos proponía
y nos propone
luchar contra un Mal
que no es abstracto
y que tiene miles,
tal vez millones,
de agentes
trabajando
aquí y ahora.
Estuvo en la PGM,
y resume así
la experiencia: […]
As if his indomitable spirit
had set its potency in motion,
the glass blazed suddenly
like a white torch in his hand. […]
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‘It is past noon,’ said Gandalf,
‘and we at any rate have not eaten
since early morning.
Yet I wish to see Treebeard
as soon as may be.
Did he leave me no message,
or has plate and bottle driven it
from your mind?’ […]
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‘He is not as other men of this time, Pippin, and whatever be his descent from father to son, by some chance the blood of Westernesse runs nearly true in him; as it does in his other son, Faramir, and yet did not in Boromir whom he loved best. He has long sight. He can […]
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Then suddenly Denethor laughed. He stood up tall and proud again, and stepping swiftly back to the table he lifted from it the pillow on which his head had lain. Then coming to the doorway he drew aside the covering, and lo! he had between his hands a palantir. And as he held it up, […]
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It was Gimli the dwarf who broke in suddenly.
‘The words of this wizard stand on their heads,’
he growled, gripping the handle of his axe.
‘In the language of Orthanc help means ruin,
and saving means slaying, that is plain.
But we do not come here to beg.’
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Boromir held out long against this choice;
but when it became plain that Frodo
would follow Aragorn, wherever he went,
he gave in. […]