A novel that is an apocryphal description of the events of John Tolkien’s trilogy “The Lord of the Rings” and the events that followed it. First published in 1999, the novel blends crypto-history, fantasy, and a spy action thriller. It is based on the premise that Tolkien’s text is a literary processing of the heroic epic of the peoples of the victors—and that if you approach it critically as a historical source, a different picture of the events of the War of the Ring may emerge.