Max Schuchart

Max Schuchart MBE (16 August 1920 – 25 February 2005) was a Dutch journalist, literary critic and translator.

He is most famous for translating the works of J. R. R. Tolkien into the Dutch language.

His Dutch translation of the Lord of the Rings (In de Ban van de Ring) appeared in 1957 and was a resounding success,[1] though its author J. R. R. Tolkien deeply disliked it, criticising its approach in a letter to his publisher Rayner Unwin.

That this is an 'imaginary' world does not give him any right to remodel it according to his fancy, even if he could in a few months create a new coherent structure which it took me years to work out.

These include Graham Greene[3] Oscar Wilde,[4] Lord Dunsany,[5] Daniel Defoe,[6] Richard Adams,[7] Terry Goodkind,[8] William Horwood,[9] and Salman Rushdie.