LOTR Mordor Style

1. LOTR Mordor Style

   #1

   Did you see this on slashdot over the weekend?
   
   "It's been said that history is written by the winners but Laura
   Miller writes in Salon about a counterexample as she reviews a new
   version of Lord of the Rings. The Last Ring-bearer was published to
   acclaim in Russia by Kirill Yeskov, a paleontologist whose job is
   reconstructing long-extinct organisms and their way of life. Yeskov
   performs essentially the same feat in his book. The Last Ring-bearer
   is set during and after the end of the War of the Ring and told from
   the perspective of the losers. In Yeskov's retelling, available in
   translation as a free download, the wizard Gandalf is a war-monger
   intent on crushing the scientific and technological initiative of
   Mordor and its southern allies because science 'destroys the harmony
   of the world and dries up the souls of men' and Aragorn is depicted by
   Yeskov as a ruthless Machiavellian schemer who is ultimately the
   puppet of his wife, the elf Arwen. Sauron's citadel Barad-dur is, by
   contrast, described as 'that 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.'"
   
   Review: http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer/index.html
   
   Link to download: http://ymarkov.livejournal.com/270570.html

2. Re: LOTR Mordor Style

   #2

   Downloaded, reading now

3. Re: LOTR Mordor Style

   #3

   those crazy russians!  :D
   
   (Must read this too!!)

4. Re: LOTR Mordor Style

   #4

   56 pages in and it is an interesting read, Mordor as a city of science and progress facing war mongering traditionalists and the machinations of evil poison using elves and their human puppets. The role of the Nazgul is absolutely fascinating!

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