Last Ring-Bearer Author on Why He Re-Imagined Middle-Earth

Kirill Yeskov: “I wrote The Last Ring-Bearer … strictly for my own enjoyment and that of my friends; … It is meant for skeptics and agnostics brought up on Hemingway and brothers Strugatzky, … What’s important is that while the world of a sequel is a reproduction that adds absolutely nothing to the original, the worlds of the canonical and the apocryphal works can ideally make a ‘stereoscopic pair’ that adds ‘depth’ to the former.”