For text in English see below.

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          "   "     ,     :

1.         ,      -         .           .

2.    ,        .  "  "  "  ".

3.     ,       ,  .

4.           " ",       "". -    .  ,         -       --.

5.             ,          .

      ...    ;             ;  .    ;       ,           .

 
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When worked on Bulgarian resources file for the LotRMap 
I used some principles, taken from the Russian translation, as follows .

1. If Tolkien gives several names for the same place then each name enters the file through separate line - to make a user easy to find it out in alphabetical ordering.

2. If a place has more than one name then each entry for it in the file refers to two of them. For example, "Nanduhirion or Azanulbizar" and "Azanulbizar or Nanduhirion".

3. For each Bulgarian name its English original is given in parenthesis for reference.

4. The source for the Bulgarian translations of Tolkien's toponims was the map in Unfinished Tales, as well as the List of names in Silmarillion - all translated by Liubomir Nikolov. I couldn`t found several names, them I translated on my own, they are indicated with --.

5. Since one have to use in the LotRMap some cyrillic font to view a Bulgarian text properly, all the accented letters in English toponims were substituted by corresponding non-accented ones. So in "Barad-Dur" a circumflex must actually stand instead of u; but keeping the circumflex results in "Barad-Dr" when using the cyrillic font.

I would like to express my gratitude to J.R.R.Tolkien for giving to us this wonderful world; to Liubomir Nikolov for his careful and poetic translation of Tolkien`s works in Bulgarian; to I.Mouwen for this nice program; and finally to Vladimir and Alexey Sviridov, because I used their file and principles as a base for the Bulgarian translation.

Nikola Venkov
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