[Tlhingan-hol] Dothraki nugh vIghal

[Michael Everson]

On 11 Apr 2013, at 04:19, David Trimboli <david at trimboli.name> wrote:

>> Talking about translations. Apparently not everyone accepts translations by the KLI, but it does make them look better when they are translated by it. Why? Because the KLI is the only "club" who knows Klingon?
> 
> Peter Jackson looks better for getting David Salo to translate Elvish for his films... because he's a well-known translator. Not the only translator, and not an "authorized" translator.

Except that Salo's pastiche has no standing whatsoever with either the Tolkien Estate or the talented linguists who edit and publish Tolkien's linguistic manuscripts. 

Someone once asked me if I would publish Alice in Salo's Neo-Quenya. Absolutely not. I respect Tolkien too much. 

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/