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Чёрная книга Арды (Black Book of Arda)

6 May, 2023
2023-5-6 4:21:02 PM UTC

A friend helped me acquire this particular book recently. Started as fan fiction online in Russia, then first published in book form in 1995, it has long been extremely popular in Russia. This new edition came out in 2022 and is already (I believe) sold out again.

At a very high level, it started as a reaction to The Silmarillion - a very one-sided history of Middle-earth. What if Melkor told his side of the story too?

More information is available at:
Чёрная книга Арды (Russian wikipedia entry)

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7 May, 2023
2023-5-7 10:06:46 AM UTC
I suppose it's in the same line than Kirill Eskov's The Last Ringbearer ?
7 May, 2023
2023-5-7 3:59:28 PM UTC
The Russians do like using Tolkien’s Middle-earth as a fictional setting for political and philosophical discourse, definitely. ?
2 hours ago
2026-6-21 12:17:30 AM UTC
This is the 1995 First Edition (There were 2 versions of the Dust Jacket)

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