<PERSON> took liberties in everything and never backed down
<PERSON> was quite the special character. He considered it a translator's liberty and duty to reinterpret any work and improve it in the translation, and he took similar liberties in interpretting the original author's inspirations as well as in the way he portrayed people in general.
<PERSON> did not appreciate any attempts to find allegories in The Lord of the Rings to historical or contemporary people or events. The reason why events transpire in his world is solely contained within the world itself, not necessitated by some action in the real world. Furthermore, both <PERSON> and <PERSON> were philologists, and language was very imporant to <PERSON>, and The Lord of the Rings is written in a style similar to the old Icelandic tales.
I do not know if <PERSON> was especially curious in seeing how a philologist in Nordic languages would translate his work, or if he simply took interest in all translations (only the Dutch translation came before the Swedish, and <PERSON> criticised that one as well), but over a year before the publishing of Härskarringen, <PERSON> expresses concerns about Ohlmarks translation efforts. Three years later, he wrote this letter to his publisher after having read the Swedish foreword to <PERSON>.
The previous letter also criticises Ohlmarks, but in this case I suspect <PERSON> made a mistake as well. 169
<PERSON> knew some Swedish, but not a lot. I do not have <PERSON>' translation at hand, but since "fjäder" can mean both "feather" and "spring", I strongly suspect <PERSON> translated "leathery" to "fjädrande" ("springy"), which <PERSON> mistranslated back to "feathery". These problems with reverse translation only served to aggravate the issue.
Meanwhile, <PERSON> basked in the attention and praise the translation of the books brought him, and took to styling himself as one of the foremost experts in <PERSON> impervious to criticism. He continued to peddle his interpretations of the books despite all denials and sometimes even his own admittance that they were far-fetched. Eventually, he would be forbidden from translating Silmarillion into Swedish (I haven't found any definitive source on whether it was <PERSON> or <PERSON> who made the decision), which <PERSON> took as a grave insult.
Eventually, <PERSON> would gradually become enemies with everyone associated with <PERSON>, which culminated in the book Tolkien och den svarta magin ("Tolkien and the Black Magic", 1982) in which he accuses <PERSON> of forgery, the <PERSON> estate of being a money-grubbing mafia and the different <PERSON> societies around the world of being satanic cults which do the mafia's dirty business while engaging in orgies and ritual murder. 169