cousin_it comments on The Sword of Good - Less Wrong

85 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2009 12:53AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 03 September 2009 02:51:41PM *  2 points [-]

Nick Perumov wrote a huge fan-sequel to LOTR in exactly this vein. In the end the new rebel leader (who started out pretty good and gathered races with legitimate grievances) zbecuf vagb n zbafgre orpnhfr ur'q hfrq gur anmthyf' yrsgbire evatf gb tnva fgeratgu, naq hcba ernyvmvat gung ur fheeraqref gb gur cebgntbavfg gb trg xvyyrq.

EDIT: rot13'd the spoilers. Which doesn't mean I recommend reading the book!

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2009 07:54:26PM 4 points [-]

Please edit this to rot13 the spoilers. You don't say: "X wrote a wonderful story and here's the ending", just "X wrote a wonderful story and here's the link".

Comment author: dclayh 03 September 2009 06:36:23PM 1 point [-]

Where can I read this?

Comment author: cousin_it 03 September 2009 07:40:04PM 1 point [-]

I don't advise you to, and anyway who'd translate a Russian fanfic into English and put it online?

Comment author: [deleted] 23 October 2010 03:19:12PM 0 points [-]

Google Translate? Assuming there was a digital copy, anyways.