Complex sentence: It is a story in the vein of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", but it is told as a tragedy from the point of view of the losing "dark" side.
Split into simpler sentences: It is a story in the vein of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". But it is told as a tragedy from the point of view of the losing "dark" side.