"a well-written, energetic adventure yarn that offers an intriguing gloss on what some critics have described as the overly simplistic morality of Tolkien's masterpiece."
Yeah sounds good
likens it instead to Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone, a retelling of Gone with the Wind,
This is pretty interesting tell me more
stating that Eskov's is the better book.
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Okay, I think we're done here. This has been interesting and if I need any wrong opinions from you in the future I'll let you know.
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.
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.
