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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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  • version, by Åke Ohlmarks, was made in 1959–1961; it was the only one available in Swedish for forty years. Tolkien took issue with Ohlmarks' translation...
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  • and because he was unhappy with the work of early translators such as Åke Ohlmarks with his Swedish version, Tolkien wrote his Guide to the Names in The...
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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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    Swede named Åke desired her. Eric however forbade his marriage proposal, since he knew a king in Russia that he wanted to marry her off to. Åke also was...
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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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  • 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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    Machine, in Rundata. Jesch 2001, pp. 180–181. 100 Svenska Runinskrifter, Åke Ohlmarks, sid 65, Bokförlaget Plus, 1978, ISBN 91-7406-110-0 Runinskrifter i Sverige...
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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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