Well, there's two sides to every story, or to quote a less banal maxim, history is written by the winners. That's the philosophy behind "The Last Ringbearer," a novel set during and after the end of the War of the Ring (the climactic battle at the end of "The Lord of the Rings") and told from the point of view of the losers. The novel was written by Kirill Yeskov, a Russian paleontologist, and published to acclaim in his homeland in 1999. Translations of the book have also appeared in other European nations, but fear of the vigilant and litigious Tolkien estate has heretofore prevented its publication in English.
http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer/index.html
At 139,000 words, this 1 Mb PDF is about 80% of the length of The Fellowship of the Ring.
http://ymarkov.livejournal.com/270570.html
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