Russian Kirill Yeskov has written a type of spin-off of Tolkien’s epic, retelling the drama from Mordor’s prespective. It has been translated into English by Yisroel Markov and is released on the public. Laura Miller writes:

Because Gandalf refers to Mordor as the “Evil Empire” and is accused of crafting a “Final Solution to the Mordorian problem” by rival wizard Saruman, he obviously serves as an avatar for Russia’s 20th-century foes. But the juxtaposition of the willfully feudal and backward “West,” happy with “picking lice in its log ‘castles'” while Mordor cultivates learning and embraces change, also recalls the clash between Europe in the early Middle Ages and the more sophisticated and learned Muslim empires to the east and south.