For many decades now, in many countries and among people of all ages, not only have they been happily reading the works of John R. R. Tolkien, but they also gather in forest clearings to their own pleasure—to keep banging swords together again and again, reenacting the great victory of Good over Evil. And all of this was invented and created by a respected Oxford professor—a pedant and homebody, a devout Catholic. He came to us from Victorian England, when no one had even heard of any Middle-earth, and left at the end of the twentieth century, leaving us this very Middle-earth richly populated with elves and dwarves, goblins and trolls, hobbits and orcs, oliphaunts and proud eagles; the wizard Gandalf became our friend, just like the noble Aragorn, just like the beautiful elf queen Galadriel, and, finally, the tireless and fearless hobbits Bilbo and Frodo.
Writers Gennady Prashkevich and Sergey Solovyov, having carefully studied Tolkien’s works and the thread of his biography, managed to create a complete biography of this remarkable man—one who succeeded in transforming and enriching our vast world.
Contents:
Chapter One: The Boy from the Orange River
Chapter Two: The Lost Paradise
Chapter Three: Dances of the Elves
Chapter Four: “Let’s Rely on the Lord”
Chapter Five: The Making of Don
Chapter Six: “In the Ground There Was a Burrow…”
Chapter Seven: Genius with an Uncertain Outcome
Chapter Eight: Temptations and Honors
Chapter Nine: Beren and Lúthien