Lucifer Chu

Lucifer Chu (; born February 19, 1975) is a Taiwanese writer and translator. He dedicated himself to promoting fantasy literature because of his passion for video games and fantasy fiction. He translated J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings into Chinese. He also translated Dragonlance Chronicle, published in 1998. He has translated 30 fantasy novels into Chinese.

Career Chu graduated from Taiwan's National Central University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. Chu learned English by playing computer games

Chu translated The Lord of the Rings into Chinese. The Linking company published his translation in 2001.

He also founded the Open Source Open Courseware Prototype System (OOPS). The OOPS is a volunteer-based localization project with the goal of translating open knowledge into Chinese. Over 20,000 volunteers are estimated to have joined the OOPS.

He has spoken at education seminars. Chu appears on television, radio, and social media. Chu later suspended all of activities in response to the incident. On June 12, Chu reported himself to the courts. Chung criticised Chu's action "exploit the justice system to whitewash his reputation". Prosecutors indicted charges against Chu by indecent assault in October 2023, and the Taipei District Court ordered him 14 months impressment at the first trial in March 2024.