My cousin just brought home from his vacation in Croatia, upon my request, a copy of the Fellowship of the Rings in Croatian. It's called Gospodar Prstenova (lit. Lord of the Rings): Prstenova Druzhina (Fellowship of the Ring).

The cool thing I found out about it as I was flipping through the pages, was that even the poems were translated (only manipulated here and there in order to preserve rhyme), and that most place-names on the map were translated to Croatian, or had the Croatian translation beside the Elvish (I'm a nut for languages ).

And, of course, the text is accompanied by illustrations by Tolkien. Speaking of illustrations, the front cover is awesome. I especially lovee the font. I'll try and get pics of it here (if it's allowed, of course).

A different languaged LotR (by that I mean a language other than English) isn't new to good host of forum members, but to a guy like me is highly fascinating (and good to increase vocab in a language I need working on).

And so this topic isn't without purpose, I have a suggestion: I propose we all pool our pictures of our books by Tolkien (or even Tolkien-related) and post 'em on these forums. Maybe we can get a seperate page for it?

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Owh... I faitnly remember something about a thread where people posted the front cover of their copy of Tolkien books, but once we also had a thread where different translations or the title or certain poems were posted....
Unfortunately, I have no idea where they might be, but by bumping the thread up front, I hope someone else remembers where they are now...

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wow i can't believe that you read lotr in croatian.. it's great....

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That's really awesome! How good is your Croatian?
I've flipped through a copy in Indonesian, and pretended my Indo was brilliant by 'translating' a poem I knew off by heart to my brother, lol.
As for book covers go, my copy of FotR no longer has one. It's been read (too many times) by several generations, and just finally fell off. But I still have it around (somewhere).