It's absolutely brilliant. I especially like that it doesn't try to simply re-tell the LOTR from a different point of view, but changes aesthetics of the story

It's absolutely brilliant. I especially like that it doesn't try to simply re-tell the LOTR from a different point of view, but changes aesthetics of the story as well. While LOTR is 'an epic saga', 'The Last Ringbearer' reads more like an historical account. BTW, the russian text is freely available as well: http://lib.ru/PROZA/ESKOV_K/last.txt http://lib.ru/PROZA/ESKOV_K/last.txt