<story><title>Middle-earth according to Mordor - The Lord of the Rings retold</title><url>http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/the_lord_of_the_rings/index.html?story=/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ddlatham</author><text>This is an example of creative, derived work that should be enriching the public commons, when the original is quite old, by a long dead author, yet is still troubled by potential copyright claims.</text></comment>
<story><title>Middle-earth according to Mordor - The Lord of the Rings retold</title><url>http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/the_lord_of_the_rings/index.html?story=/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Scriptor</author><text>I really need to get around to reading this. The original LOTR did have a rather &quot;western&quot; bent to it. Looking at things in another way would be pretty fun.&lt;p&gt;Also related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2003/04/22fellowship.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2003/04/22fellowship.html&lt;/a&gt;, if Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn watched The Fellowship of the Ring.</text></comment>