John Ronald Руэл Толкин (3.01.1892-2.09.1973) is a writer, poet, philologist, professor of the Oxford university, founder of modern фэнтези. "Хоббит" was written in 1937, and in the middle of 1950th three books "The lord of the ring", narrating about Средиземье, came into the world - the world, inhabited by the representatives of magic races with a difficult culture, history and mythology.In subsequent years these novels were translated into all world languages, adapted for the cinema, making of animated cartoon, audioplays, theatre, computer games, comics and generated mass of imitations and parodies.There is over ten of translations of trilogy into Russian language. This edition was entered by translation of В. of Муравьева and А. Кистяковского.