Tolkien talks - Comparación entre Gandalf y el Doctor/ A comparison between Gandalf and the Doctor

[Spanish+English versions]

Durante la pasada Mereth Cenagosa organizada por nuestro Smial de la Ciénaga de los Muertos de la Sociedad Tolkien Española (29-30 abril y 1 mayo), presenté una charla comparando los personajes de Gandalf y el Doctor (el protagonista de la serie británica Doctor Who). Experimenté con una presentación más audiovisual (con gifs, imágenes y clips de vídeo) que las que suelo crear para mis conferencias de temas de mujeres en el universo de Tolkien, y la verdad es que me lo pasé muy bien tanto preparándola como presentándola en cosplay del Décimo Doctor :)

During the last Mereth Cenagosa on the 29-30th April and 1st May, a convention organized by our Smial (local delegation) of The Dead Marshes, part of the Spanish Tolkien Society, I presented a talk in which I compared the characters of Gandalf and the Doctor (the main character of the british TV series Doctor Who). I experimented with a more audiovisual approach (with gifs, pics and video clips) than I was used to in my talks about women in Tolkien's universe, and to be honest I had a blast both working on it and presenting it - while cosplaying the Tenth Doctor, of course :)

En la pasada EstelCon 2016 (8-11 diciembre), la convención anual de la Sociedad Tolkien Española, volví a presentar una versión revisada y algo extendida de esta charla. Y esta vez debutando con mi primer cosplay crossover - Space Gandalf :D!

During the past EstelCon 2016 (8th-11th December), the annual convention of the Spanish Tolkien Society, I presented this talk again, a revised and slightly extended version. And this time in my first crossover cosplay - Space Gandalf :D!

Space Gandalf crossover cosplay for the talk xD

En este post he subido la presentación de la charla - en formato .pdf, por lo que los gifs no funcionan :/, y añado los clips de vídeo aparte -, y en el futuro próximo pretendo subir algunas de mis notas, con las citas y referencias utilizadas. 

In this post I've uploaded the talk presentation slides - in .pdf format, so the gifs don't work :/, and I add the video clips below -, and in the near future I'd like to also upload some of my notes, with the quotes and references I used in this talk.

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• Clips de vídeo de la charla/Video clips from the talk:

-'Un Gandalf espacial' (cortado y subtitulado por mí)
-'A Space Gandalf' (clipped and subtitled by  me):

-El arquetipo del héroe-errante: Sintiendo noltalgia por y recordando su hogar/ The errant-hero archetype: Homesickness and nostalgia about their home:

• Gandalf describe Valinor cuando habla con Pippin en El Retorno del Rey (clip descargado)
• Gandalf remembers and describes Valinor when talking to Pippin in The Return of the King (downloaded clip)

• El Décimo Doctor describe su planeta natal Gallifrey, destruido durante la Guerra del Tiempo, en 'The Sound of Drums' y 'Gridlock' (cortado y subtitulado por mí)
• The Tenth Doctor talks about his home planet Gallifrey, destroyed during the Time War, in 'The Sound of Drums' and 'Gridlock' (clipped and subtitled by me)

-Actitud ante la guerra y la violencia/Attitude to war and violence:

• Parte del discurso anti-guerra del Duodécimo Doctor en 'The Zygon Inversion' (cortado y subtitulado por mí)
• Part of the Twelve Doctor's anti-war speech in 'The Zygon Inversion' (clipped and subtitled by me):

   

• Gandalf habla a Bilbo sobre 'el verdadero coraje' en Un Viaje Inesperado (clip descargado, subtitulado por mí)
• Gandalf talks to Bilbo about 'true courage' in An Unexpected Journey (clip downloaded from YouTube, subtitles by me):

 -Compasión/ Compassion:

• Gandalf habla a Frodo sobre Gollum y la compasión en La Comunidad del Anillo (clip descargado)
• Gandalf talks to Frodo about Gollum and compassion in The Fellowship of the Ring (clip downloaded):

• El Duodécimo Doctor salva a su enemigo Davros cuando era niño y le habla de la compasión en 'The Witch's Familiar' (clip cortado y subtitulado por mí)
• The Twelfth Doctor saves his enemy Davros when he was a child and talks to him about compassion in 'The Witch's Familiar' (clipped and subtitled by me)

- Teoría del Coraje/Theory of Courage:

• Gandalf hace frente al Balrog para que la Comunidad escape en La Comunidad del Anillo (clip descargado)
• Gandalf faces the Balrog so that the Fellowship can escape in The Fellowship of the Ring (clip donwloaded)

• El Undécimo Doctor se enfrenta solo a una entidad maligna para salvar a la gente de Akhaten en ‘The Rings of Ahkaten’ (clip descargado, subtitulado por mí)
• The Eleventh Doctor faces an evil entity posing as a 'God' on his own in order to save the people of Akhaten in 'The Rings of Akhaten' (downloaded clip, subtitles by me)

                                       

-Todo el mundo es importante/ Everyone is important:

• El Undécimo Doctor dice que nunca ha conocido a nadie que no fuera importante en 'A Christmas Carol' (clip descargado)
• The Eleventh Doctor claims that he has never met anyone who wasn't important in 'A Christmas Carol' (downloaded clip)

• Gandalf habla sobre la valía de la 'gente común' en Un Viaje Inesperado (clip descargado)
• Gandalf talks about the value of 'ordinary folk' in An Unexpected Journey (downloaded clip)

Quenya translation - Diálogo de Astérix en Quenya: Eleniono Tecië mi i Lambë Eldaiva / Translating Astérix into Quenya

I've been studying Tolkien's Quenya for a while, and one day I decided to translate something. So I ended up translating some frames from one of my fave Astérix comic books: The meeting of Anticlimax and Astérix in Astérix in Britain (Astérix chez les Bretons in the French original). It's nice to be a geeky erudite :) 

 The tricky part about translating Astérix comic books, in my opinion, revolves around all the set phrases, idioms and double-meaning jokes. So I wanted to base my tolkienized translation on at least two different translations. As well as the original French version of the comic book, I used the English and the Spanish translations in order to create the Quenya translation - I like the Spanish translations of Astérix books because they're reasonably literal and quite close to the original; on the other hand, I find that the English translations deviate quite a bit from the original more than once, so that was the version I ended up using the less for my translation. 

 The final study includes the comic panels with the Quenya dialogue superimposed (bigger pic of the panels below as well), the English and Spanish translations, a brief analysis of my own Quenya translation, and a list of the dictionaries/glossaries and the rest of bibliography I used.   I initially published this translation here as a pdf file back in 2014 (the English version is below), but I recently updated it and got it published in the Summer 2019 Estel, the official seasonal magazine of the Spanish Tolkien Society (Sociedad Tolkien Española), so here's the updated version from the magazine :D :

In English (earlier version, not updated):

Closer look at the panels with  my Quenya translation (Open in a new tab for a larger image):

And bonus pics of the newly received magazine with the article :D ^^

  

 

 

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