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title: ""Kirill Yeskov bases his novel on the premise that the Tolkien…"
date: 2025-12-19
source: facebook
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# "Kirill Yeskov bases his novel on the premise that the Tolkien…

*December 19, 2025 · Facebook*

\"Kirill Yeskov bases his novel on the premise that the Tolkien account is a \"history written by the victors\".\
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Mordor is home to an \"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\...\"

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