"In 1999, Russian scientist Kirill Yeskov wrote
The Last Ring-Bearer, a 139,000-word novel that re-wrote
The Lord of the Rings trilogy–re-imagining J.R.R. Tolkien‘s heroic epic as a bloody war with unrecorded consequences. Now Yisroel Markov has released a translation of the novel (with Yeskov’s help)."
Article
here.
Link to downloadable file
here.
Disappointing article by Laura Miller at Salon.com in which daft ideas about fanfic are perpetuated
here.
Excellent, well-informed critical article which puts it into a wider context of post-communist Eastern European fantasy
here.
( My glib take under the cut )