The Last Ring-bearer

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Dave

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More than 15 years ago Russian scientist Kirill Yeskov tried to settle certain geographical problems in Tolkien's fantasy world. One thing led to another, and he tackled a bigger project - what if we assumed that it's no less real than our world? His conclusion was that in such a case, the story of the Ring of Power is most likely a much-altered heroic retelling of a major war - but what was that war really about?
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http://ymarkov.livejournal.com/270570.html

The crux of the story is, what if the POV from Tolkien's world was reversed? Aragorn and the Elves are the bad guys.

I've heard a lot about this and am going to start reading it soon. Thought you'd all be interested.
 

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i'll read it when I'm not reading all day for my two reading based jobs, though. But this sounds VERY interesting!
 
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Reading a few pages and I'm just not getting into it. Either I'm not in the right mood, or the writer is not a good writer. It reads like better than average fan fiction: the author appears desperately to be trying to write with some of the style and flair of tolkien, which is too bad because they can't get anywhere close to it - they should be creating their own style. Still far from good prose.

I might try again another time, but the first several pages didn't pull me in as much as I need them to.
 
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The prose is very purple. You're right. It definitely has that certain indescribable something that rings of fan fiction.
 
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