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Originally Posted by scalem X  I wouldn't see why the French wouldn't have: HP et la pierre des philosophes
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Probably... the French, who have a strong tradition in alchemy, considered that their children couldn't twig the original title.
Shame! Nicolas Flaumel has got a street named after him, in Paris, and Pernelle, his wife and companion in the Art, has got another street on her own (but not a patronym: this is France).
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All Lotr titles seem to be normal translations (Le seigneur des Anneaux,El Señor de los Anillos,...) except for the Dutch one (the first translation) "In de ban van de ring' Which is in fact impossible to translate back into English.
(would be something like: confined within the powers of the ring)
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Aren't the Dutch strange people, Scallywag, stranger than the Belgians? But I must admit that they captured the quintessence of the book (don't know whether Tolkien would have been happy though).