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    Åke Joel Ohlmarks (3 June 1911 – 6 June 1984) was a Swedish author, translator and scholar of philology, linguistics and religious studies. He worked...
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  • into Swedish has been the subject of controversy. The first version, by Åke Ohlmarks, done in 1959–1961, was the only one available in Swedish for forty years...
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  • Åke Ohlmarks översättningar av J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings" [Good arable land or fertile and fruitful soil? – On Erik Andersson's and Åke Ohlmarks'...
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  • and film director Åke Ohlmarks (1911–1984), Swedish author, translator, and scholar Åke Olivestedt (1924–1998), Swedish cyclist Åke Olsson (1934–2009),...
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  • film directed by Emil A. Lingheim and Åke Ohlmarks and featuring Knut Borglin, Hans Alfredson and Åke Ohlmarks. The cast included many non-professional...
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    considered reliable on early medieval Swedish coins. Birger Nerman, Åke Ohlmarks and Lars O. Lagerqvist have suggested that one of the smaller tumuli...
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  • Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings series was translated into Swedish by Åke Ohlmarks with the title Sagan om ringen: "The Saga of the Ring". (The 2004 translation...
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  • dislike for both Ohlmarks and his translation is made clear in his Letter #228 Carpenter 2023, #228 to Allen & Unwin, 24 January 1961: "Ohlmarks is a very vain...
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    stone about 50 years earlier. According to a hypothesis put forward by Åke Ohlmarks, Varinn was the local chieftain and as such also the one who performed...
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  • choices made by early translators, such as the Swedish translation by Åke Ohlmarks, Tolkien wrote a "Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings" (1967)...
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