13-02-2001, 15:45
Je cherche à comprendre pourquoi F. Ledoux a traduit ainsi Derndingle, le lieu de l'Assemblée des Ents.<p>Il se trouve que Tolkien commente ce nom dans son <i>Guide to the Names in the Lord of the Rings</i>. En voici ce qu'il dit :<br>"<i>Derndingle</i>. Said by Treebeard to be what Men called the meeting-place of the Ents; therefore meant to be in the Common Speech. But the Common Speech name must be supposed to have been given a long time ago, when in gondor more was known or remembered about the Ents. <i>Dingle</i> is still known, meaning ‘deep (tree-shadowed) dell’, but <i>dern</i> ‘secret, hidden’ is long obsolète, as are the related words in other Germanic languages – except <i>Tarn-</i> in German <i>Tarnkappe</i> (from Middle High German). Translate by sense, preferably by obsolete, poetic, or dialectal elements".<p>Je n'arrive donc pas à voir dans Derunant ce qui correspond aux indications de Tolkien.<p>Sébastien