J. Garth's book Tolkien and the Great War is inspired by the author's long-standing love of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, combined with an interest in the First World War. Showing Tolkien's development as a writer and myth-maker, Garth recreates the events of the historical Battle of the Somme: bloody battles and the cruel everyday life of war, the victim of which was Tolkien's generation and his closest friends - inspired, talented intellectuals who dreamed of changing the world. The author used materials from unpublished personal archives, as well as Tolkien's service record and other unique wartime documents. Published for the first time in Russian, preserving the reference apparatus of the original. For a wide range of readers. In PDF A4 format, the publishing design is preserved.