You won't understand The Lord of the Rings without this booktranslated

A smart person won't get ahead, A smart one will send hobbits.

You can’t just go and figure out how The Lord of the Rings was created. But in the issue “ABOUT WHAT” we tried.

The main landmark of our journey is Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy Tales.” What clues to fantasy did the creator of Middle-earth hide in the text? About myths, personal experience of war and Christianity:

Petr Pashkov - candidate of theology, associate professor at PSTGU;

Olga Zaitseva is a philologist, head of the Thomas Academy project.

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“ABOUT WHAT” is a humanitarian podcast for NON-humanitarians. Here we open books that have been around for the last 3000 years, peer into Christian roots, meanings and learn to analyze competently. Connect to our bookshelf!

The project is being implemented with the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives.