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    Åke Joel Ohlmarks was a Swedish author, translator, and scholar of religion. His translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was strongly disliked by the author himself. Ohlmarks took significant liberties, shortening parts of the work and inserting his own interpretations. This divergence from the original text prompted Tolkien to compile his own guide to the names within his creation, highlighting Ohlmarks's unique, albeit controversial, approach to translation.

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    The Lord of the Rings. The Two Towers
    • The Lord of the Rings. The Two Towers

      • 446 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      The Two Towers is the second part of J.R.R. Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction The Lord of the Rings. It is impossible to convey to the new reader all the book's qualities, and the range of its creation. By turns comic, homely, epic, monstrous and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scenes and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. In the words of the novelist Richard Hughes 'For width of imagination it almost beggars parallel, and it is nearly as remarkable for its vividness and narrative skills which carries the reader on enthralled for page after page'. Tolkien created in The Lord of the Rings a new mythology in an invented world which has proved timeless in its appeal.

      The Lord of the Rings. The Two Towers1992
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    • Stjärnornas horoskop

      Horoscoptum gestellet durch Ioannem Kepplerum 1608.

      En sakkunnig orientering i historisk och modern astrologi, skildrar stjärntydningskonstens urgamla hävder, meddelar hela den berömda planetläran karaktärsläran i anslutning till zodiakens djurkretstecken med utförligare prognoser än någonsin tidigare, den tebanske dagskalendern samt årscyklerna med deras regentplaneter, samt slutar med en populär handledning i konsten att ställa en människas horoskop jämte en utförlig lista av flera hundra historiska och nu levande personer födda i de olika zodiaktecknen. Rikt illustrerad.

      Stjärnornas horoskop1979