villainous friend<p>An alternate translation of the first half-chapter of <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/LegendOfTheCondorHeroes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LegendOfTheCondorHeroes</span></a>, from 1997: <a href="https://wuxiawanderings.com/an-early-translation-of-legend-of-the-condor-heroes-that-never-came-to-be/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wuxiawanderings.com/an-early-t</span><span class="invisible">ranslation-of-legend-of-the-condor-heroes-that-never-came-to-be/</span></a></p><p>This was supposed to have been the official English translation, by John Minford and Sharon Lai, but for some reason the project never came to fruition. <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/wuxia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wuxia</span></a> <a href="https://federatedfandom.net/tags/JinYong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JinYong</span></a></p>