19.11.08, 10:38, dodany przez Telperion
This travel report was first published by Telperion in Polish on 3 October 2008
Translated into English (Westron) by Noatar
You can join us during our Tolkienian travel to England, Wales and Ireland in Summer 2009!
Yesterday we went on the long-awaited trip to County Kerry. Generally speaking, it had been since I had read about Professor Tolkien’s stay in Kerry in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator a couple of years before that I wanted to go there, and find the view from one of his drawings, or even some people who might still remember Professor Tolkien visiting these parts of Ireland. It seemed impossible to me that nothing should have been left of his visit in such a small village as Castlecove, Tolkien being, after all, an Oxford professor. We set out from Cork just as Tolkien once had, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Ireland of the year1952 must have looked like a completely different world than what we saw that day, we wondered. We also tried to work out how Tolkien had come up with an idea to go on holiday to Kerry. In The J.R.R Tolkien Companion and Guide (Christina Scull, Wayne G. Hammond; Vol I, p. 376) I found under the date late July – 15 August 1951 one particular note:
They travel to North Wales and take the ferry from Fishguard to Cork where they are met by Bridget McCarty, Professor of English at University College, Cork, whom Tolkien has met when examining in Ireland, and who has become a friend as well as a colleague. The Tolkiens stay for a few days in Cork with Bridget and her aunt, then are driven by Bridget to Castle Cove [it should be Castlecove] (…).
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06.11.08, 08:23, dodany przez Galadhorn
Polish version of this text added on 14 October, 2008
by Ryszard „Galadhorn” Derdzinski
Translated by Noatar
We’ve finally got precise information on the next year’s Tolkien Trail Expedition to Wales and Ireland. It is going to take place at the end of July and the beginning of August (most probably between July 30th to August 10th, 2008, but an exact date will be given just before accommodation is secured). The total price for this 12-day tour, including 11 nights’ accommodation plus the English Channel and St George’s Channel crossings, is 1900 zlotys (PLN) per head. We will soon inform you how you can put yourself on the list of people who wish to take part in our third Expedition so far (the first being the Ostrawa Expedition when we watched The Fellowship of the Ring movie, and the second one, namely the Tolkien Trail Expedition to England, which was organized last year). Przeczytaj resztę wpisu »
2 KomentarzyKategorie wpisu: Fandom tolkienowski, In Westron (English), Wydarzenia
04.11.08, 23:01, dodany przez Galadhorn
On 28 September we marked the 24th anniversary of her death. Maria Skibniewska, the first Polish translator of Tolkien’s works, was born on 3 May, 1904 in Warsaw, and died there on 28 October, 1984. Her maiden name was Skibińska. She translated from English and French into Polish nearly 80 books. Below you will find a list of her translations prepared by the Elendili, members of a very famous Internet forum devoted to Tolkien (here you can find its English part). Mrs Maria’s husband was Capt Stanisław Skibniewski, a civil engineer and participant of the Warsaw Uprising fighting under the pseudonym “Cubryna”, and commander of the insurgent group “Reduta – Elektrownia”. Mr and Mrs Skibniewski had no children; that is why the translation rights are owned by Mrs Maria’s nephew, Piotr Skibiński. Towards the end of her life, Skibniewska’s eyesight was deteriorating. One of the last works she worked on was The Silmarillion, gone to press in June, 1983, and published a year after her death. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with any photographs of our late translator. In order to depict her, however, it will suffice to quote J.R.R. Tolkien, who in one of his less known notes compared Skibniewska to other translators. He wrote:
Not all are as humble as the Polish lady. (Scull, Hammond, J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, II, p. 1036)
In 1959 Skibniewska corresponded with Tolkien himself concerning the Polish translation of The Lord of the Rings. Nowadays her translation of the novel is held to be “canonical”, and served as a basis for the translation of The Lord of the Rings movies. In 1996, twelve years after her death, a new edition of Skibniewska’s translation of the novel was published, with corrections by Marek Gumkowski and the translation of Appendices D and E by Ryszard Derdziński. Przeczytaj resztę wpisu »
1 komentarzKategorie wpisu: In Westron (English)
02.11.08, 13:21, dodany przez Nero
In Bydgoszcz (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship) Tolkien’s fans created a Tolkienian section. Halcatra (one of the fans from Bydgoszcz and the member of Elendili forum) has informed the Polish fans, that section’s website was made. It is the third Tolkienian section in Poland (first is Parmadili from Katowice, and second is Lómendili from Poznań). We want to recommend the meetings in Bydgoszcz and invite you to visit the section’s website.
Enjoy and we’ll be seeing you in Bydgoszcz!
1 komentarzKategorie wpisu: Fandom tolkienowski, In Westron (English)
02.11.08, 13:07, dodany przez Nero
And we have another information about celtic harp… We want to recommend music of Polish musician from Poznań (western Poland), Barbara Karlik. She lately recorded a CD, which certainly will be interesting for J.R.R. Tolkien’s fans from Poland and other countries. She writes:
Mairi Cláirseach Sings – a CD full of harp’s sounds and voice, which lead us over the hills of Ireland and Scotland, through books’ pages to the imagination’s realm, not without humour.
The CD costs only 20 PLN, and it is advisable by virtue of Tolkienian references. The whole CD can be listening in Last FM (here)
You can find a tracks’ list here
Welcome to Barbara Karlik’s website!
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27.10.08, 15:57, dodany przez Nero
Jacek Wanszewicz is a Polish musician known as the author of very interesting projects based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. He pursues radio-plays (for example radio-plays Smaug and Balrog – well known in the Polish fandom), music shows (eg. during Tolk Folks in Bielawa, Lower Silesia). Lately together with other Tolkien’s fans he recorded a CD entitled The Book of Lost Songs. On Hobbiton forum mONA has informed the Polish fans that Wanszewicz’s web site was published in the net. It’s a very intereresting site, which greatest section is download. It contains many megabytes of music (for example a whole show called The Fall of Gondolin from previous Tolk Folk).
Welcome to Jacek Wanszewicz’s website!
2 KomentarzyKategorie wpisu: In Westron (English), Pliki do ściągnięcia, Tolkienowski internet
06.06.08, 01:23, dodany przez Telperion
Kiedy znalazłem tego newsa na stronie www.kyivpost.com, pomyślałem, że zapewne zainteresuje on kilku polskich tolkienistów. Oto już wkrótce, na ukraińskim rynku wydawniczym, pojawi się ukraińskie wydanie ostatniej książki J.R.R Tolkiena – Children of Húrin.
Przekładem zajęła się Kateryna Onyschuk z Lwowa, która jak sama przyznała, w okresie tłumaczenia książki, śniła o elfach, i gnomach pomagających jej w wybraniu najlepszego z przekładów.
Do niedawna nie było pewne, który przekład ukaże się pierwszy, rosyjski czy ukraiński. Okazało się jednak, iż małe ukraińskie wydawnictwo – Astroliabi (które powstało w 2001 roku), poradziło sobie z tłumaczeniem powieści szybciej niż potężny rosyjski AST, zapowiadający wydanie książki w najbliższych miesiącach. Jak podkreśla Oleh Feshovets – dyrektor Astroliabi- taki właśnie był plan. Plan rzeczywiście sprytny, jako że wydawca zapewne zyska wiele poprzez wydanie Children of Húrin na ukraińskim rynku, gdzie fani Tolkiena rusza do księgarń, by kupić pierwszy dostępny przekład (czy to rosyjski czy ukraiński).
O wiele ważniejsze jest oczywiście to, iż ten przekład zachęci być może młodzież do przeczytania tej właśnie książki w języku ojczystym, choć nie wchodzi on do kanonu lektur szkolnych.
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5 KomentarzyKategorie wpisu: In Westron (English), Nowości wydawnicze, Utwory Tolkiena
25.05.08, 21:41, dodany przez Telperion
Tolkien, Race and Cultural History by Dimitra Fimi, explores the evolution of Tolkien’s mythology by examining how it changed as a result of Tolkien’s life story and contemporary cultural and intellectual history. The book considers Tolkien’s creative writing as an ever-developing ‘legendarium’: an interconnected web of stories, poems and essays, from his early poems in the 1910s to his latest writings in the early 1970s. Consequently, the book is not restricted to a discussion of Tolkien’s best-known works only (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion) but examines the whole corpus of his legendarium, including the 12-volume History of Middle-earth series, which has received little attention from critics. This new approach and scope brings to light neglected aspects of Tolkien’s imaginative vision and addresses key features of Tolkien’s creativity: the centrality of the Elves and the role of linguistic invention in his legendarium, as well as race and material culture in Middle-earth. Przeczytaj resztę wpisu »
1 komentarzKategorie wpisu: In Westron (English), Nowości wydawnicze
21.02.08, 21:14, dodany przez Telperion
An Hobad, nó Go Ceann Scríbe agus Ar Ais Arís tak brzmi w języku irlandzkim tytuł książki J.R.R Tolkiena The Hobbit: or There and Back Again. Fakt że czekamy na nią już kilka ładnych lat, bo przecież informacja pojawiła się w roku 2005, (Aiglos nr5 strona 158, oraz Forum Elendili ) ale wygląda na to, że tym razem irlandzki przekład ukaże się już naprawdę niedługo (wiosna 2008) przynajmniej taka informacja znajduje się na stronie wydawnictwa Evertype . Pchany palącą mnie ciekawością zadzwoniłem dziś do Westport, w hrabstwie Mayo gdzie znajduje się siedziba wydawnictwa, by zapytać się jak to w końcu jest z tym An Hobiad… Przemiła pani, wyraźnie zadowolona że pytam, oznajmiła że książka rzeczywiście ma pojawić się w sprzedaży na przełomie marca i kwietnia. To pierwsze wydanie Hobbita w Gaelige, zostanie opatrzone oryginalnymi ilustracjami J.R.R Tolkiena. Tłumaczenia dokonał Nicholas Williams, jego irlandzki przekład książek Carrolla Lewisa Alicja w Krainie Czarów oraz O tym co Alicja odkryła po drugiej stronie lustra cieszy się wielkim uznaniem wśród irlandzkojęzycznych czytelników. Przeczytaj resztę wpisu »
18 KomentarzyKategorie wpisu: In Westron (English), Nowości wydawnicze
05.02.08, 03:23, dodany przez Sirielle
I’m passing SWG news on behalf of Dawn Felagund:
Back to Middle-earth Month 2008: The Circles of the World
Why did you fall in love with Middle-earth?
Every March, we seek to answer that very question. March is Back to Middle-earth Month (B2MeM), a chance to remember what inspired us to become involved in this fandom in the first place. At SWG, we have observed B2MeM for three years now as a testament for our enduring passion for creativity and scholarship inspired by the stories of J.R.R. Tolkien, particularly The Silmarillion and its related works.
This year’s theme is The Circles of the World, and we look at our creative endeavors that explore beginnings and relationships, conflicts and endings, and, of course, fate. Three times a week for the month of March, we present a different topic alongside stories and artwork illustrating that topic. The responses come from all parts of The Silmarillion but share one important things in common: These are the events, people, and places in Tolkien’s world that inspire, challenge, and intrigue us. Each author’s interpretation of the topic includes part of the answer to the question we ask and begin to answer each March: Why did you fall in love with The Silmarillion?
We are collecting ficlets, poems, artwork, and excerpts of longer stories for this year’s theme. We welcome everyone–both SWG members and non-members–to share their work.
Please visit SWG for more details and contact the moderator if you have any more questions – submission guidelines.
Deadline for Submissions: Monday, 25 February 2008.
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