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Allan Turner is a linguist and medievalist, best known as a

Tolkien scholar
. His 2005 book Translating Tolkien has been welcomed by other scholars.

Life

Allan Turner was born c. 1949. He was educated at

Friedrich Schiller University, Jena until his retirement. He has written or edited several books on the fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien,[1][2] and has appeared as a keynote speaker at Tolkien conferences.[3]

Reception

Further information: Poetry in The Lord of the Rings and Translating The Lord of the Rings

Joe Christopher, reviewing Tolkien's Poetry in Mythlore, calls the volume "valuable" as the first scholarly collection on Tolkien's verse, while noting that the essays are "uneven". He praises the contributions by Tom Shippey, Carl Phelpstead, and Nancy Marsch on Tolkien's metre and style, and Petra Zimmermann's essay on how Tolkien uses poetry in The Lord of the Rings.[4]

David Doughan, reviewing Thomas Honegger's books on translating Tolkien, to which Turner contributed, comments that Turner is "not only a highly intelligent and (dare one say) perceptive scholar—[but] he writes comprehensible English." He writes that Turner deals with "many matters [of translating Tolkien] ... sagely".[5]

Arden R. Smith, reviewing Turner's Translating Tolkien in Tolkien Studies, writes that the book is "the first single-author, book-length examination of the difficulties inherent in translating Tolkien into any other language." He describes it as systematic, and well-grounded in relevant theory, including Shippey's philological criticism.[6]

In 2014, to mark Turner's 65th birthday, Thomas Honegger and Dirk Vanderbeke edited a festschrift in his honour, entitled From Peterborough to Faëry: The Poetics and Mechanics of Secondary Worlds.[1]

Works

Books
Chapters

References

  1. ^ a b Honegger, Thomas; Vanderbeke, Dirk, eds. (2014). "Introduction". From Peterborough to Faëry: The Poetics and Mechanics of Secondary Worlds (PDF). Walking Tree Publishers.
  2. ^ "Allan Turner". Tolkienists.org. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Interview with Allan Turner". Tolkien.hu. 20 August 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  4. ^ Christopher, Joe (2013). "[Review:] Tolkien's Poetry". Mythlore. 32 (1): 164–169.
  5. doi:10.1353/tks.2006.0012
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  6. doi:10.1353/tks.2006.0031
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