For many decades now, in a variety of countries, people of all ages have not only enjoyed reading the works of John R. R. Tolkien, but also gather in forest clearings to knock swords for fun, again and again reenacting the great victory of Good over Evil. And all this was invented and created by a venerable Oxford professor, a pedant and a homebody, a devout Catholic. He came to us from Victorian England, when no one had heard of any Middle-earth, and left at the end of the 20th century, leaving us as a legacy this very Middle-earth densely populated by elves and gnomes, goblins and trolls, hobbits and orcs, oliphant elephants and proud eagles; the magician and wizard Gandalf became our friend, like the noble Aragorn, like the beautiful elf queen Galadriel, like the tireless and fearless hobbits Bilbo and Frodo. Writers Gennady Prashkevich and Sergei Solovyov, having carefully studied Tolkien’s works and the outline of his biography, managed to create a complete biography of an amazing man who managed to transform and enrich our vast world. sign of information products 16+