• @Gigan
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    27 months ago

    The book contains sections of Russian history

    Huh?

    The Ring itself is a luxurious ornament, but powerless

    Uhh, then why does Sauron want it, and die when it’s destroyed?

    Orcs in Eskov’s book are humans

    This is just blatantly disregarding Tolkien’s canon.

    It’s an interesting idea, but it sounds like it’s a little to far into the fan-fiction side of things for me.

    • mozz
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      47 months ago

      I actually kind of liked the idea “yeah the orcs were just people we didn’t like, and all the descriptions that they’re monsters were just racism.” Tolkien and the strong morality were one part I loved about it; it wasn’t simple or naive but it was right and wrong. But yeah, if you wanna change it up to say the orcs were just foreigners to make a point, then let’s rock.

      But if you wanna say “yeah sometimes it’s present tense sometimes it’s past tense and rambles about Russian history sometimes but probs better than Tolkien” then we cannot be friends.

      • flicker
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        17 months ago

        This is my take. I was so ready for it, but they really lost the weave.

        There’s something juicy there but boy did they lose it fast and hard.

    • ThePowerOfGeek
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      7 months ago

      The whole thing sounds like it’s just contrarian Russian axe-grinding against the West. It’s an interesting idea at a basic level, but very much lacking in subtlety in its execution, and it seems to distort a lot of Tolkien’s plot points and world building beyond the point of absurdity.