25.08.2012, 17:57
Une remontée de fuseau de 2 ans. J'ai posté la pub du H-S sur la liste de la mythsoc, et la première réponse est une question sur le titre de notre mag :
En gros, ce monsieur veut savoir pourquoi le journal se nomme l'Arc et le Heaume, plutôt qu'autrement.
Citation :The most interesting thing about this for me was trying to figure out why the French Tolkien society would give its journal this name. I could figure out that "l'arc" was "the bow" and "le heaume" was "the helmet," although it's not the most common way to say this. The most common way to say "helmet" is "casque." But then I wondered why they used this phrase, since, while bows and helmets appear in Tolkien, I didn't realize it was a standard phrase. Some searching showed that in the Silmarillion Dor-Cúarthol is referred to as the "Land of Bow and Helm." I'm not sure why they picked this particular name for their journal. Did they pick "heaume" rather than "casque" because "helm" is the less common name for the object (rather than "helmet")? Did they pick it because "heaume" is (presumably) cognate with "helm"? Excuse my pickiness, but this is fascinating to me.
En gros, ce monsieur veut savoir pourquoi le journal se nomme l'Arc et le Heaume, plutôt qu'autrement.
What's the point of all this pedantry if you can't get a detail like this right?