News and Politics | February 26, 2011 | 3 comments

Middle-earth according to Mordor

source: http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer/index.html

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"Well, there's two sides to every story, or to quote a less banal maxim, history is written by the winners. That's the philosophy behind "The Last Ringbearer," a novel set during and after the end of the War of the Ring (the climactic battle at the end of "The Lord of the Rings") and told from the point of view of the losers. The novel was written by Kirill Yeskov, a Russian paleontologist, and published to acclaim in his homeland in 1999. Translations of the book have also appeared in other European nations, but fear of the vigilant and litigious Tolkien estate has heretofore prevented its publication in English."

http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer/index.html
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  • remanns
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      remanns  

    • Oh yes,....he certainly HAS - - -

      [ Others, like the novelist Michael Moorcock, have attacked Middle-earth as a childishly rose-tinted vision of the Merrie Olde England that never was, as well as willfully blind to the hardships and injustice of preindustrial and feudal societies. ]

      - It was the first real fantasy I read for myself,.....( I think my mother actually read the Hobbit to me ) in 4th grade. Damn,....psyches are IMPRESSIONABLE at that age; corrupted me for life !

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  • booksellergirl
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    • remanns:

      To read Tolkien--actually almost all fantasy--one must suspend your sense of modern justice. All the "to the manor" born stuff drives me nuts. Hence, the term "fantasy." We have to pretend that everyone is happy in their place. I enjoy Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" a lot. But there is a nagging ringing in my ear of "people fought and died so they wouldn't live under a king" while I'm reading it.

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