-Poul Anderson, A Circus of Hells IN Anderson, Young Flandry (Riverdale, NY, January 2010), pp. 193-365 AT CHAPTER EIGHTEEN, p. 336.
The call is Eriau and remains unexplained, as does "Khraich."
There is very little Eriau in the Technic History. We might have quoted it all already.
In a screen adaptation of The Rebel Worlds, we would have to hear the tripartite Didonian speech and also the pidgin developed by Aenean scientists to communicate with Didonians.
But how much "language" should there be in any Technic History films? Should the entire series be spoken in the appropriate languages - Anglic, Planha, Eriau etc - with subtitles? Well, no. That is what we call "going too far." Entire languages would have to be created ex nihilo. They would be new creations not derived from anything in Anderson's texts, unlike in Tolkien's case.
In the Time Patrol series, there is not a single word of Temporal. If we were to hear any, then it would have to be very little. Anything more elaborate would be an unwarranted addition.
4 comments:
'Trreaann!' is also similar to Burroughs "kreeegha!", a 'mangani' alarm call.
Kaor, Mr Stirling!
Was that from ERB's Tarzan stories? I read some of them but I liked best his Barsoom books.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: yes, the Tarzan books.
BTW, in the first draft of TARZAN OF THE APES, he has Tarzan fighting a tiger. The editor wrote back "There are no tigers in Africa."
Burroughs replied: "Substitute lion."
Tho' in fact Tarzan would have had to go far inland from where his parents' were cast away by the mutineers on their ship to meet a lion. They're savannah and desert animals, and don't go deeper into jungles than the edges or thick brush country. Tigers, OTOH, like swamps.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
So lions would not be one of the dangers faced by travelers in African jungles or thick brush.
Ad astra! Sean
Post a Comment