The Lord of the Rings (per. Muravyov, Kistyakovsky). Tolkien J. R. R.

John Ronald Ruel Tolkien (01/03/1892 - 09/09/1973) - 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” saw the light, telling about the Middle -earth - a world inhabited by representatives of magical races with complex culture, history and mythology.

In subsequent years, these novels were translated into all world languages, adapted for cinema, animations, audiopius, theater, computer games, comics and gave rise to a lot of imitations and parodies.

There are more than a dozen trilogy translations into Russian. This publication included the translation of V. Muravyov and A. Kistyakovsky.