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December 17, 2003 02:57 AM

Broken: Lord of the Rings review (funny)

Dave L. writes:

With the imminent release of Return of the King, I thought you might like this.

This is a clipping from an inflight magazine from "Air Caribe" (one of the Caribbean island-hopping airlines) from about August 2002.

Something is definitely a little broken here :)


And, folks, remember (as if you need reminding) that today is the release date of Return of the King!

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The explanation is that in french, ring is anneau, and lamb is agneau

Posted by: Blaise at December 17, 2003 01:59 PM

Heh. I know enough French to understand how they made the mistakes they did, but still... one would think whoever translated that would have looked things up just to double-check.

Posted by: codeman38 at December 17, 2003 09:20 PM

I speak fluent French, and I agree with codeman38. Those mistakes are understandable, but it looks like it was translated from a cheap free online translator. Mistakes like that are slightly foolish, but entertaining non-the-less.

Posted by: never mind that at December 19, 2003 05:03 PM

I want to see its companion film, "Silence of the Rings".

Posted by: joe at March 31, 2004 04:11 PM

I can't wait to see "the two turns"

Posted by: me at September 15, 2004 08:11 PM

What is an "amateur of the hobbit?"

Posted by: Brian at February 24, 2005 01:02 PM

>what is an amateur of the hobbit?

umm... i'll bet it's somebody who's never read/seen LOTR.

Posted by: Bob at April 6, 2005 08:28 PM

In this context "amateur" (pronounced roughly "om-ah-TERR") can be best translated as "fan"; definitely not the same as its English cognate.

This is sort of akin to the sign in English on the Eiffel Tower identifying Thomas Edison as a "famous American physician". Uh, messieurs, try translating "physicien" one more time, s'il vous plait.

Posted by: JayKay at September 1, 2005 08:58 PM

what's "community of the lambs"? but I bet my french essays read as bad as that the other way around, so I guess I can't make fun

Posted by: Joyce at September 4, 2005 07:27 AM

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