[HIGHLIGHTS] “We feel among the Russians a joy in parading in Mordor”: when the war in Ukraine and the universe of Tolkien come together

Since the start of the war, Ukrainians have been inspired by The Lord of the Rings. But, something new, the Russians themselves today agree to take on the role of "bad guys" Iegor Gran, son of the Soviet dissident Andreï Siniavski, was born in 1964 in Moscow.

He wrote a text, Mordor, which talks about the “literary capillarity of a work of fiction towards real life” This work is The Lord Of The Rings, by JRR Tolkien.