Putting the last point in the "Lord of the Rings", Professor Tolkien closed the door to the world of elves and dwarves, orcs and goblins, hobbits and people he created and threw away the magic key. Only one writer, Nick Perumov, managed to find a guiding thread into the mysterious and fragile world of Middle-earth. The task was not easy, because every wrong step threatened to lose the path, every inaccurate word could destroy the magic .. But the talent won . The world of Tolkien came alive, transformed, played with new, previously unknown colors and... turned into the world of Nick Perumov And conceived as a free sequel to The Lord of the Rings, the work turned into a bright, fascinating epic, one of the most noticeable in Russian and world fiction.