Re:Try in another language (Score 1)

Interesting observation -- I'm a native English speaker now living in Latin America and working hard to improve my Spanish. I can read non-fiction and technical Spanish well enough, these days, but literary Spanish (with its much wider range of vocabulary and more artistic constructions) often still defeats me. Being intimately familiar with Lord of the Rings in English, I've read through a fair bit of the standard Spanish translation now; that's been very helpful, since I can usually understand passages in Spanish that I might not otherwise understand simply by virtue of knowing the story and being familiar with the English version. I have not, however, attempted to read The Silmarillion or the Children of Hurin in Spanish yet!