The war is over. Through betrayal and deception, the superstitious barbarians of the Western Alliance, aided by mages with sinister intentions, have defeated the peaceful, industrious, and pacific Orocuen people, whom their enemies call “orcs.” Now the slaughter begins. The depleted ranks of the defeated will face the long journey home, harassed by elven patrols seeking to eliminate every last orc, man, woman, and child, branded by hateful propaganda as a cannibalistic and cursed race to be exterminated. But from the ashes of disaster, a spark of hope may still emerge. If the mission entrusted to a “company” composed of a doctor and soldiers is a success, the tide may turn...

Kirill Eskov, a paleontologist at the Russian Academy of Sciences, shows us and reimagines The Lord of the Rings as a geologist and concludes that the story passed down by the victors is far from reality. He then sets out to tell us what really happened, from the point of view of the Orocuen people, who had the misfortune of starting their industrial revolution, challenging the domination of beings from another dimension, the elves... This surprising, irreverent and exciting parody, already translated into seven languages, is finally available in French.