The Last Ring-Bearer

The premise of The Last Ringbearer is the proverb "history is written by the victors", and that the Tolkien account is just that – the history as dictated by the victorious side. In Eskov's version of the story, Mordor is described as a peaceful country on the verge of an industrial revolution, that is a threat to the war-mongering and imperialistic faction represented by Gandalf (whose attitude has been described by Saruman as "crafting the Final Solution to the Mordorian problem") and the elves. The story of The Last Ringbearer begins at the end of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, as survivors of the defeated Mordor are organizing resistance and trying to save what they can of their civilization. Their story is mixed with another one, set hundreds of years in the future, as archeologists in a "modern day Middle-earth" are rediscovering their true history, and finding artifacts that shine doubt on the established history known to us from The Lord of the Rings.