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The works of J.R.R. Tolkien and the worlds that he imagined have been the threshold for thousands of Latin American readers to many other universes and literary traditions. It is thanks to Tolkien that so many have become acquainted with authors like Ursula Le Guin or C.S. Lewis; it is due to our interest in Middle-earth that we are enticed to find out more about the Kalevala and Nordic mythologies; for some of us, it is because of our love of Bilbo and Legolas that we can feel so at ease when reading about the adventures of Luned wandering around the forests when we read El Fuego Verde by Verónica Murguía. But unfortunately many of these are still inaccessible to speakers of other languages.

During the [Tolkien Society Summer Seminar 2021], I referred to the importance of translation to have access to many scholarly studies, as well as to works of fiction that were originally written in other languages.…