Lenin is Rolling Over in Grave (Yet Again)

LOTR fans are staging battle scenes around Moscow:

In the summer, woods around Moscow, as well as Moscow's biggest parks often teem with people who look like they've just walked off the set of “Lord of the Rings” – swords, armor, the works. The parks and gardens which, for those in the know, have their own names in elven tongue – serve as grounds for role-playing and acting out the scenes from Tolkien originals as well as Tolkien-based fan fiction.

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We're sure Lenin would've disapproved. We wonder what the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch (not exactly a fan of the RCC) thinks about the Catholic Tolkien's popularity.