I had studied Spanish 4 years in high school and one year in college, but that
was thirty years ago. At first I looked up a lot of words (trasgo =
goblin: I never learned that in school!) But with the story being
so familiar, I could do pretty well only understanding half the words or so.
Some of the translations were very clever. Treebeard's name was
Barbol. In Spanish, beard is barba and tree is arbol, so they put them
together. And Quickbeam was Ramaviva: living branch. I never did
quite get used to the Great River being the Rio Grande though.
:-)
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"Men always croak when they're hungry." -- Louisa May Alcott
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