> lord of the rings mentioned in relation to ziggers as many people tend to see parallels of tolkien's world to ours, so do fantasy enjoying russian nationalists as well. tho there is a twist - they don't take offense in being portrayed as the repulsive and despicable lowlives ruled by a literal demon necromancer. no they see it as a sort of false paraphrasis of events that took place, a sort of "history written by the victors", when in reality things were supposedly rather different. for example one buttblasted russnigger author wrote a russian self-insert revisionist fanfic of lord of the rings in 1999 in which sauron and the orcs are actually the good guys and have been slandered by the (((elves))) and their human golems after being subjugated by them.  the novel is relatively popular in certain russian circles, for the following reasons. > it is a parallel account of, and an informal sequel to, the events of j. r. r. tolkien's the lord of the rings. > it provides an alternate take on the story. scholars have variously called it a parody and a paraquel. > the book contains sections of russian history, and while it says little directly on real-world politics, it can be read as an ironic riposte to american exceptionalism. > kirill yeskov bases his novel on the premise that the tolkien account is a "history written by the victors". > 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. > [...] which treats melkor as good and the valar and eru ilvatar as tyrannical rulers.   ast_ringbearer
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