Timeline for Is there a passage in Lord of the Rings told from the perspective of an orc?
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| Jul 15, 2018 at 8:19 | comment | added | Wade | Sounds interesting, but I'd definitely never read it. | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 20:34 | comment | added | Andres F. | @AlexD I don't see that, no. Gandalf and the Elves are portrayed as a mystical feudal theocracy, and Mordor is not portrayed as a socialist paradise. There are some echoes of anti-fascism (e.g. Gandalf accused of "crafting the Final Solution to the Mordorian problem"). You could of course argue your point, but it's far from obvious and I suspect in this case it's "in the eye of the beholder" ;) | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 19:04 | comment | added | AlexD | @AndresF. The book obviously draws ideas from propaganda image of USSR as industrial & enlightened nation which is opposed by evil backward West. | |
| Jul 4, 2018 at 21:00 | comment | added | Scott | Thanks for the comments. I’ve removed the inaccurate references to the USA and USSR | |
| Jul 4, 2018 at 20:59 | history | edited | Scott | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 4, 2018 at 14:56 | comment | added | Andres F. | @DonFusili I don't think it fits the details. For example, in The Last Ringbearer, Sauron doesn't exist; it's a fiction made up by (if I remember correctly) the Elves and Gandalf. The Orcs know Sauron doesn't exist, so they wouldn't discuss him. | |
| Jul 4, 2018 at 14:53 | comment | added | Andres F. | The Last Ringbearer is wonderful, but it's not a comparison between the USSR and the USA, for the reasons @PaulJohnson explains. It's a conflict between a backwards theocracy backed by sorcery and a modern industrial & enlightened nation. (It was also written in 1999, which makes the USSR analogy even less likley). It's also a fantastic adventure! | |
| Jul 4, 2018 at 4:09 | comment | added | user23715 | I've read it. The original text, or the translation (or both), is just awful. | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 16:50 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | Its a bit difficult to read the West led by Gandalf in The Last Ringbearer as the USA, because in TLR Gandalf wanted to preserve the traditional rustic feudal societies of Gondor, Rohan and the Shire against the industrialisation being pioneered in Mordor. Gandalf's vision in TLR is not the USA, rather it is a deconstruction of Tolkien's idealised English rural idyll. | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 13:44 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | The whole of Last Ringbearer is written from basically viewpoint of an Orc. | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 6:34 | comment | added | DonFusili | I have read it, it fits pretty well with the details in the question. | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 3:25 | history | answered | Scott | CC BY-SA 4.0 |