The Lord of the Rings

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3.01.1892 - 2.09.1973) - writer, poet, philologist, professor at the University of Oxford, the founder of modern fantasy. In 1937, "The Hobbit" was written, and in the mid-1950s, three books "The Lord of the Rings" were published, telling about Middle-earth - a world inhabited by representatives of magical races with a complex culture, history, and mythology. In the following years, these novels were translated into all world languages, adapted for film, animation, audio plays, theater, computer games, comics, and gave rise to a multitude of imitations and parodies. There are more than a dozen translations of the trilogy into Russian. This edition includes the translation by V. Muravyov and A. Kistyakovskiy.