DIMENSÕES DO FANTÁSTICO E AVENTURAS DA TRADUÇÃO EM THE LORD OF THE RINGS, DE J.R.R. TOLKIEN.

Abstract

The British writer John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was, for 34 years, professor at Oxford University. Likewise as he conducted his classes with his favorite subjects, his writings are marked by features that satisfy his personal taste, providing excitement and pleasure. His most successful work The Lord of the Rings has sparked discussions for more than half a century, and in large part, about his linguistic grounds. The present work aims to study the dimensions of the fantastic and fantasy quoted in this book, as well as the activity of translation into Brazilian Portuguese by Artenova publishing in 1974 and by Martins Fontes publishing, in 1994. The work of Tzvetan Todorov, Brian Attebery and Richard Mathews are used as the theoretical framework for the study of fantasy. And for studies of translation are used the deconstruction, proposed by Jacques Derrida, the residual linked to the translation, by Lawrence Venuti and the notion of singularity proposed by Maria Paula Frota. This dissertation is divided into three chapters, with the first two discussed issues related to the narrative and the limits of the fantastic and fantasy, and the third will focus on the translation of the book The Lord of the Rings and some nuances of the translation process.