The Last Ringbearer (annas-archive) by the paleontologist Kirill Eskov.
Eskov bases his novel on the premise that the Tolkien account is a “history written by the victors”.[2][3] Mordor is home to an “amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic”, posing a threat to the war-mongering faction represented by Gandalf (whose attitude is described by Saruman as “crafting the Final Solution to the Mordorian problem”) and the Elves.[2]
Macy Halford, in The New Yorker, writes that The Last Ringbearer retells The Lord of the Rings “from the perspective of the bad guys, written by a Russian paleontologist in the late nineties and wildly popular in Russia”.[4] The book was written in the context of other Russian reinterpretations of Tolkien’s works, such as Natalia Vasilyeva and Natalia Nekrasova’s The Black Book of Arda [ru], which treats Melkor as good and the Valar and Eru Ilúvatar as tyrannical rulers.
This history lesson will only take one minute #trustmebro.
30 minutes later
Soon to be adapted into a trilogy of major motion pictures, directed by Peter Jackson.
*edit: revised wording.
The trilogy isn’t set in the first age.
If someone goes from Aunulindale and the Silmarillion to the third age in 30 minutes, they skipped waaaay too much. Probably skipped over the War of Wrath, or at least one of the drownings.
Only a month? There are people here who can talk about it till the inevitable end of the universe
Just saw a bit of this interview on The Daily Show… and man was it hilarious
I actually watch the whole damn thing. For me, Putin went from highly intelligent evil dictator to highly stupid evil dictator. I hope I get the chance to spit on his grave one day.
Isn’t it crazy that the more you learn about world leaders, the more it becomes evident that they’re a bunch of morons just like everyone else?
At least sauron wasn’t lying like putin.
UKRAINE WAS IN CHARGE OF ALL RUSSIA BEFORE. MONGOLIA ALSO. RUSSSSSSSSSS NAME COMES FROM UKRAINE AREA