The book contains articles, essays and lectures by J.R.R. Tolkien on alliterative poetry, Middle English literature, Celticology, the problem of creating artificial languages and the specifics of Oxford education. The collection “Monsters and Critics and Other Articles” is an integral part of the English “Tolkieniana” and a significant phenomenon in the history of literature as a whole, for the first time published in Russian in its entirety, preserving the structure and reference apparatus of the original. The texts are provided with extensive comments from translators. For a wide range of readers.