I'm probably the only person in all of Arda who cares for this, but.

[oloriel]

Apparently, the Chinese have given up transcribing Tolkienish names. Hm. While that was always fun (Éomer = Yīǒumó; literally: Europe-paintbrush-hero *no comment*; Aragorn = Àlāguǒ ("Asia-ragged-country")) to decipher, it usually wasn't exactly... fitting. So now they just use romaji? That's probably a good idea. But of course, it steals a lot of the exotic touch. And it would have been fun to see how they'd have transcribed the Valar. Eheheh.

(They have not even transcribed "Mary Sue". How disappointing.)

(thanks to limyaael for the link, and congrats on having your story translated into Chinese!)

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Es scheint, als hätten die Chinesen die Transkription der Tolkienschen Namen aufgegeben. Hm. Es hat immer so viel Spaß gemacht, die Namen dann zu dechiffrieren (Éomer = Yīǒumó; wörtlich: Europa-Pinsel-Held *kein Kommentar*; Aragorn = Àlāguǒ ("Asien-zerlumpt-Land")), aber besonders ... passend waren sie nie. Also jetzt nehmen sie romaji? Das ist vermutlich eine gute Idee. Aber natürlich wirkt es dadurch nicht mehr so exotisch. Und es wäre so interessant zu wissen, wie sie die Valar transkribiert hätten. Eheheh.

(Nicht mal "Mary Sue" haben sie transkribiert. Wie enttäuschend.)


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Comments

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I don't know actually - maybe there isn't, which might be why they chose to use Latin characters for the names in fanfic such as this: if there is no official transcription yet, it's probably better to stick to the original, or no-one will know who one is talking about...
If there is a Chinese translation, I want to have it. Not that I can read Chinese well (or at all without a dictionary), but it would be seriously cool.

[ninquelote.livejournal.com]

Hmm... well, this from the main page (http://www.tiriontuna.net/archive/stories/Darkmage/images/linking-silm.jpg) looks like the cover to a translation. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything about how to buy a copy.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

*stares* I hadn't seen that. Gotta love the Chinese.
Hm. Since I don't know about a Chinese version of amazon.com, maybe one could import it via Japan. Or find someone who's going to China anyway so they can buy it there...
*sigh*