Exit LOTR! Finally the MORDOR side
March 1st, 2011 by Chocotoffert
Finally, after all you happy Harry Potter campers and Elf dream-boys had your woohoo moment, we can finally get ready for some down-to-earth tale telling as it is. So dump your cuddle Frodo, with feelings all over the place and sentimental bla bla with superstitions and lalalala fantasy, circus, magic and superduperpowers…
Because someone in Russia has taken the time to set the record straight: The last Ring Bearer, is out on the interwebs for download!
In this Wiki-LOTR-leak the truth about the winners-side, other than the propaganda movies is told.
Laura Miller puts it nicely:
That wizard Gandalf is a war-monger with intent on crushing the scientific and technological initiative of Mordor and its southern allies because science ‘destroys the harmony of the world and dries up the souls of men’ and Aragorn is depicted by Yeskov as a ruthless Machiavellian schemer who is ultimately the puppet of his wife, the elf Arwen. Sauron’s citadel Barad-dur is, by contrast, described as ‘that amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic.
Exactly!
For years, there have been various accusations that JK Rowling “stole” the characters or ideas for her series of Harry Potter books… The latest is that Rowling’s publisher, Bloomsbury Publishing, has been sued again for plagiarism over the Potter books, this time by the estate of Adrian Jacobs. It seems that Jacobs once wrote a book about a boy wizard called Willy The Wizard that has some distant similarities to some stuff that happens in the Potter books…The whole thing is pretty silly, of course. The publisher is vehemently denying any copying, and it seems unlikely that any copying did actually happen…Of course, the side note to all of this is how aggressive Rowling has been about trying to “protect” her own copyright on the Potter books. 
