Max Schuchart
From Tolkien Gateway
Max Schuchart, MBE (August 16, 1920 - February 25, 2005) was a Dutch poet, journalist and translator. He translated many other English authors, such as Oscar Wilde, Terry Goodkind, Richard Adams, Daniel Defoe and Salman Rushdie. Schuchart was the first to translate The Lord of the Rings (in 1956-1957), and the second to translate The Hobbit. He wrote a book about his experiences called Tolkien: In de Ban van zijn Werk.
Schuchart revised his translation in 1996, and this was published the subsequent year.
Bibliography
Translations
- 1956-1957: In de Ban van de Ring (The Lord of the Rings)
- 1956: De Reisgenoten (The Fellowship of the Ring)
- 1957: De Twee Torens (The Two Towers)
- 1957: De Terugkeer van de Koning (The Return of the King)
- 1960: De Hobbit, of Daarheen en Weer Terug (The Hobbit, or There and Back Again)
- 1973: Bilbo's Laatste Lied (Bilbo's Last Song)
- 1975: De avonturen van Tom Bombadil en andere verzen uit het Rode Boek (The Adventures of Tom Bombadil)
- 1976: Brieven van de Kerstman (Letters from Father Christmas)
- 1977: Sprookjes van Tolkien (with Willy Wielek-Berg)
- Over Sprookjesvertalingen (On Fairy-Stories)
- Blad van Klein (Leaf by Niggle)
- De Smid van Groot-Wolding (Smith of Wootton Major)
- Boer Gilles van Ham (Farmer Giles of Ham)
- 1978: Het Leven van J.R.R. Tolkien (J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, by Humphrey Carpenter)
- 1978: De Silmarillion (The Silmarillion)
- 1980: In de Ban van de Ring: Aanhangsels (Appendices)
- 1980: Tolkien Lexicon (Tolkien Lexicon, by J.E.A. Tyler)
- 1981: Nagelaten vertellingen (Unfinished Tales)
- 1982: Brieven (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien)
- 1982: Tolkien: Meester van Midden-aarde: zijn romans en verhalen (Master of Middle-earth, by Paul H. Kocher)
- 1997: In de Ban van de Ring (revised edition)
- 2000: Sprookjes en Vertellingen
- De Thuiskomst van Beorthnoth, Beorhthelms zoon (The Return of Beorthnoth, Beorhthelms son)
- De Avonturen van Tom Bombadil
- Over sprookjesverhalen
- Blad van Klein
- Boer Gilles van Ham
- De Smid van Groot-Wolding
- 2000: Boer Gilles van Ham
- 2001: The Lord of the Rings: Het Officiële Filmboek (The Lord of the Rings: Official Movie Guide, by Brian Sibley)
- 2001: In de Ban van de Ring: De Reisgenoten: Wegwijzer tot Midden-Aarde (The Fellowship of the Ring Visual Companion, by Jude Fisher)
- 2002: Roverandom (Roverandom)
- 2002: In de ban van de ring: De Twee Torens: Wegwijzer tot Midden-Aarde (The Two Towers Visual Companion, by Jude Fisher)
- 2003: De Smid van Groot-Wolding (Smith of Wootton Major
- 2003: In de Ban van de Ring: De Terugkeer van de Koning: Wegwijzer tot Midden-Aarde (The Return of the King Visual Companion, by Jude Fisher)
- 2003: The Lord of the Rings: De Terugkeer van de Koning: de Officiële Fotogids (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Photo Guide, by David Brawn)
Own work
Awards
- 1958 - Martinus Nijhoff-award, for his work on tranlation, especially In de Ban van de Ring.
