Career
He has worked as a translation consultant or translator of JRRT"s main works (and works about the author) into Brasilian Portuguese. His latest translations include The Children of Húrin, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, The Fall of Arthur, Smith of Wootton Major and Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (as Os Filhos de Húrin, A Lenda de Sigurd e Gudrún, A Queda de Artur, Ferreiro de Bosque Grande and Beowulf: Uma Tradução Comentada respectively). Besides his involvement in translation, he has himself written Explicando Tolkien, a book of essays about Tolkien"s life and work (Martins Fontes, São Paulo, 2003.