“The war is over. Through betrayal and deceit, the superstitious barbarians of the Western Alliance, aided by mages with sinister intentions, have defeated the peaceful, industrious, and pacific Orocuen people—those whom their enemies call ”orcs." Now the slaughter begins. The sparse ranks of the defeated will face the bitter 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 successful, the tide may turn, and the hour of revenge for the Orocuen people will have come.
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 told 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...
246-page book in PDF.
