Subject: Have a fun thing.
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Posted on: 2017-04-29 13:48:00 UTC
So, you know those stills from Star Wars with the mangled English subtitles? Well, they're back... and this time, they're in Middle-earth.
Have a compilation here.
I can't tell if this is people making stuff up (possibly with the "help" of Google Translate?) or a real fansub gone horribly wrong. ^_^; A lot of them seem like a non-English speaking transcribing the English dialogue by ear? I'm so confused! {X D
~Neshomeh
They had a lot of circulation at the time, I'm surprised you didn't see them. Did we have a "throne of Condo" one in there somewhere? That was another classic.
hS
Aw, come on, they've got "I don't suppose we ever have to see them again", and "Ride hard, don't come back" (^_^), how have they missed the best one?!
I mean, it's kind of terrible that they missed this excellent trio from FotR:
... but the ultimate best Engrish subtitle comes from Return of the King:
And a million fangirls squeal "YES!" all together...
hS
(To be fair, it's really hard to find the RotK ones online; I've had to pull that out of the Wayback Machine.)