Literary parallels: from the creative heritage of J.R.

For the anniversary of the great writer, our library prepared an exhibition “The Worlds of Professor Tolkien”. It opened the door to any reader into his world, in which you can learn everything about the author himself, his books, and heroes. “Blessed of the 20th Century” - the first shelf, tells about the life and work of the writer. This information can be found in the following sources:

1. Gapov Vl. Modern Tolkien // Coeval.-2000.-№2.-p.6
2. Krapov Ya. Blessed of the 20th century // New time.-1999.- No. 28.-p.38
3. Alekseev S. John Ronald Ruel Tolkien // Knowledge is power. - 1997. - No. 9. - p. 134
4. Alekseev S. Inklings// Knowledge is power.-1998.-No. 6.-p.142
5. Ivanova E. Tolkien // White Mouse.-1998.- No. 2.- p.40
6. Prokhorova N. Invitation to escape // Knowledge is power. - 1997. - No. 8. - p. 150

Tolkien himself called himself a hobbit, and the Hobbitania - Britain. And our second shelf is called “Actually, I’m a Hobbit.” “Hobbits were, are and will be” - this is the motto on this shelf. And the literature is like this:

1. Zimbardo Rose. A. Moral vision in "The Lord of the Rings" // Urania. - 1993. - No. 2-3. - p. 40
2. Shippy T. Tolkien as a post-war writer // Knowledge is power. - 1997. - No. 12. - p. 143
3. Prokhorova N. Virtues of Tolkien’s world: deeds and inactions // Knowledge is power. - 1998. - No. 3. - p. 144
4. Zhurenkov N. Hobbies. Hobbies // Ogonyok. - 2002. - No. 9. - p. 48

You can learn about Tolkien's world from his books. And the books are on the next shelf - “My world appeared with me”:

1. Tolkien J.R.R. Blacksmith from Big Wootton.-M.: Monologue, 1994.
2. Tolkien J.R.R. The return of Beorkhtnot. - M.: EKSMO-PRESS, 2001
3. "The Lord of the Rings": The legend has finally come to life! // COOL.- 2002.- No. 4.-p.8
4. Tolkien J.R.R. The Hobbit or there and back. - St. Petersburg: Azbuka, 1999.
5. Tolkien J.R.R. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other stories. - St. Petersburg: Azbu-ka, 1999.
6. Lord of the World // Hammer.-2002.- No. 3.- p.12

The highlight of this shelf is a real highlight. It lies in a jar along with a rowan twig. This highlight came from one of the Tolkienists’ campaigns and ended up at our exhibition. And in order to travel through Tolkien’s world, you need a map, and this map of Middle-earth can be found here. Tolkien's world has existed for quite a long time and it is quite natural that there are archives. And these "Archives of Middle-earth" are stored on the following shelf:

1. Tolkien J.R.R. About long-bearded gnomes and people // Knowledge is power.-1998.- No. 9-10.-p.154
2. Fursov A. Dwarfs, goblins and others // Troy.-1993.- No. 1.- p.46
3. Elvish alphabet
4. The battle plan and the maple leaf that flew from the forests of the Hobbitan.

And finally, the last shelf. Here is collected literature about Tolkien's followers. In the title you can hear the call “Tolkien himself - tolkien and not another”:

1. Clive L. Chronicles of Narnia. - M.: EKSMO-PRESS, 2000
2. Big little wizard // COOL. - 2002. - No. 11
3. Kustarev A. Harry Potter Lord // New Time.- 2001.-No. 52.-p42
4. Brooks T. The Sword of Shannara. - M.: Tsentrpoligraf, 1996
5. Ursula Le Guin A Wizard of Earthsea // School novel newspaper. - 1999. - No. 6
6. Yazvikov V. Who is haunted by ancient blood // Around the World. - 1997. - No. 2. - p39.
7. Zvirmarillion and other fairy tales. - Saratov.: Italic, 1994.
8. Belyanin A. A sword without a name. - M.: Armada, 1999.

And in our exhibition there are 5 signs of Tolkienism. And now any reader can check for himself whether he is a Tolkienist.

This exhibition was in the library from January 1, 2002, lasted for a whole year, maybe more, and was very popular among readers. Yes, and, sadly, one of our dragons “flew” from it. They probably “attached wings” to him, although he already had wings.

In addition, it is offered:

• Organization of summer competitions and events for summer health camps
• Conducting competitive and entertainment programs upon request (New Year, Defenders of the Fatherland Day, March 8, Children's Day, Birthday Day, graduation parties (from kindergarten, from elementary school)
• Conducting a series of classes on teaching library and bibliographic literacy
• Carrying out events on the stated topic
• Conducting Legal Information Days
• Conducting Information Days for Teachers
• Conducting tours of art exhibitions
• Demonstration of educational and popular science films from the library’s collections

The library regularly hosts:

• Weekend family hour (every Sunday at 12.00)
• Literary and musical lounge (second Tuesday of the month at 17.30)
• Video lecture “The Key to Health” (third Sunday of the month at 15.00)

For questions regarding preparation and holding of events, you can contact:

9-03-67 Department of Cultural Projects and External Relations (OKPiVS)
9-05-75 Department of Intellectual Recreation (IRO) Business Reading Hall (ZRH)
9-10-70 Hall of Universal Funds (ZUF)
9-06-60 Department of Arts (ISK)
9-05-80 Department of Literature in Foreign Languages ​​(OIL) Center for Tolerance (CT)
9-04-67 Center for Local History (CC)
9-02-62 secretary

The list was compiled: M.V. Krivoruchko, Deputy Director
Contact phone: 9-02-62

If you have never heard of J. R. R. Tolkien and know nothing about his “Hobbits”, “The Lord of the Rings”, “The Silmarillion”, the only explanation for this can only be that you live in another galaxy. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the writing of the cult fantasy The Hobbit, or There and Back Again.

John Ronald Ruel Tolkien, English writer, linguist and philologist, professor at Oxford University, one of the compilers of the Oxford English Dictionary. And it was he who created the images of elves, magicians, and gnomes in the form in which they are most familiar to us. Tolkien invented the hobbits and developed the languages ​​of Middle-earth, the fairy-tale world in which the events of the named books develop - books that brought him worldwide fame and were among the most read and published in the world.

In 1958, Tolkien wrote in a letter to his admirer Deborah Webster: “I am truly a Hobbit. A hobbit in everything except height. I love gardens, trees and non-mechanized farms, I prefer good simple food (not from the freezer!), and I can’t stomach French delights; I love and even dare to wear patterned vests in our sad times. My humor is simple-minded, and even the most well-meaning critics find it tiresome; I go to bed late and get up late (if possible). And I don’t travel much.”

The Hobbit was born on a summer day, around 1930. Tolkien, then a young professor, sat in his office at home and graded exam papers: “One of the candidates generously left one of the pages of his work blank, which is probably the best thing that can happen to an examiner, and on this sheet I wrote: “There was a hole in the ground, and in the hole lived a Hobbit.” The names generated a story in my head: I thought that I definitely had to find out who these hobbits were.” Tolkien once told a reporter that the hobbits were English, and therefore the Shire was England. When asked what the East of Rohan and the south of Harad were, Tolkien replied: “Rohan is the Elvish word for East. Asia, China, Japan and all the places that Westerners consider far away. And South Harada is Africa, warm countries.” The reporter concluded: “It turns out that Middle-earth is Europe, isn’t it?” Tolkien replied: “Yes, of course, Northwestern Europe... where my imagination came from.” (He later denied having said this.)

At the age of nineteen, Tolkien traveled to Switzerland with friends of his family. There he saw the mountains so close for the first time. As his children later said, this made a great impression on him and, of course, had an impact on his work, because mountains are given a lot of attention in Tolkien's works.

Before returning to England from Switzerland, Tolkien bought several artistic postcards. Among them was a reproduction of a painting by the German artist J. Madlener, it is called “Der Berggeist”, “The Mountain Spirit”. It depicts an old man sitting on a rock under a pine tree. He has a white beard, wears a round wide-brimmed hat and a long cloak. He talks to a white fawn, who sniffs his outstretched palms; His face is mocking, but good-natured. Mountain peaks are visible in the distance. Tolkien carefully kept this postcard. Many years later he wrote on the piece of paper in which it was wrapped: "Gandalf's prototype." The main part of the tale was written in a relatively short period of time: the Dragon was originally called Priftan, Gandalf was the name of the chief dwarf, and the wizard was called Bladortin. The dragon's name was soon changed to Smaug, from the Germanic verb "smugan", meaning "to squeeze into a hole"; Tolkien called it "cheap philological stuff." However, the name Bladorthin persisted for some time, and the narrative had progressed quite far before the chief dwarf was called "Thorin Oakenshield", and the name Gandalf (taken, like all dwarven names, from the Elder Edda) passed to the wizard. It suited him very well, since in Icelandic the word means “elf with a magic staff”; hence the word "wizard".

Ever since The Lord of the Rings became something of an international bestseller, Tolkien has been invited far and wide. But he accepted only one invitation: in 1958 he went to Holland, and the trip turned out to be very successful. The main event was the Hobbit Dinner, at which Tolkien gave a witty speech in English interspersed with Dutch and Elvish. It was partly a parody of Bilbo's farewell speech at the beginning of The Lord of the Rings. At the end of his speech, Tolkien said: “It is exactly twenty years since I began in earnest to compile the history of our venerable ancestors, the Hobbits of the Third Age. I look to the East, to the West, to the North, to the South - and Sauron is nowhere to be seen; however, Saruman bred many descendants. We hobbits have no magical weapons against them. However, my gentlemen, hobbits, I offer you this toast: to the hobbits! May they outlive all the Sarumans and see the trees blooming in the spring again!”

Tolkien himself did not really approve of biographies. More precisely, he did not like it when biography was turned into a kind of literary study. “I am absolutely sure that studying the biography of an author in order to understand his works is a waste of time.” However, he could not help but realize that, since his works were enormously popular, the likelihood of a biography being written after his death was very high. And it seems that Tolkien himself gradually collected materials for his future biography: he provided old letters and papers with his comments. In addition, he wrote several pages of memoirs about his childhood. However, there is an opinion that his real biography is “The Hobbit”, “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Silmarillion”, because the true truth about him is contained in these books.

Compiled by Ekaterina Sizekhina

The publication uses materials from the site t-w-f.narod.ru.
Photo from the site www.diary.ru, illustrations by J. Tolkien from the site dreamworlds.ru

Sukharnikova N., Romashkina E.N.,
employees of Kostanay regional district
Children's and Youth Library (Republic of Kazakhstan)

1. Reading Tolkien’s works as a path to mastering world artistic culture and the artistic creativity of readers

Every person is many worlds. But it’s rare that someone can give people one of their best worlds. J.R.R. Tolkien had such a gift. Therefore, it is not surprising that Tolkien’s books about the Fellowship of the Ring have been ranked first in popularity among English-language books for fifty years.

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote books while already a professor and teacher of English literature. His biography is wonderful. In early childhood he lost his father, and later his mother. The teenager was raised by a priest. At the age of sixteen, Tolkien met a girl with whom he later married and lived his whole life, raising two sons and a daughter. A typical Englishman: sporty, sociable, and you can’t say that he took part in the First World War and miraculously survived it. A brilliant linguist, a very modest and pure person.
Although he was born in Africa, he grew up in England, in the Midlands. That’s what he called the World of his books: “Middle-earth.” His books are multifaceted and surprisingly charming. You don’t want to leave them for good.
Our readers never leave. And they even created the Order of Tolkienists on July 28, 1997. In the children's reading forms, “The Singing Shamrock” and a thick book of Irish poetry from the BML, folk tales and romantic works of English and American writers: “The Seagull Called Jonathan Livingston” by R. Bach, books by E. Norton, “A Wizard of Earthsea” Ursula Le Guin. Of course, the books of Tolkien’s friend K. Lewis “The Chronicles of Narnia”, “Alice’s Adventures” by L. Carroll, “The Little Prince” by A. de Saint-Exupéry, etc.

Tolkien's books are also a bar that you don't want to fall below. Among the authors of books written in Russian, in the first places are V. Krapivin (the same topic of personal choice, Path, responsibility), the Strugatsky brothers. The children master the mythology of all countries and peoples.
I think that the literary work of Tolkienists is a wonderful result of reading. These guys are amazingly literate in matters of genres and types of poetry, they can write ballads, sonnets, parodies... O. Lanko, A. Medvedev, S. Nam, E. Romashkina are the authors of the library literary magazine “Hedgehog”.

Tolkien is a linguist. And his readers love games with elephants, letters and fats. They love “inverted” poetry, limericks, and play poems.

And our Tolkienists also use runic writing in communication: the alphabet of elves and dwarves. Moreover, they collect examples of the use of runes in decorative art. And along the way, an interest in such a rare art as calligraphy came.

The study of English is also encouraged. Up to a very serious thesis by E. Romashkina (who became a library employee) on the topic “The relationship of the Anglo-Saxons with the Celtic and Scandinavian tribes and the influence of the languages ​​of these tribes on modern English.”

But for these teenagers and young men, only the means of language are not enough for self-expression. They draw illustrations for works, coats of arms, princesses, landscapes, sails at sea. And they find artists whose paintings, in their opinion, are in tune with Tolkien. Ancient images of dragons, medieval tapestries, ancient castles and maps, wood carvings, beadwork, mosaics and jewelry, ships and harbors - all this organically fell into the sphere of their interests. And they also love to wear elements of medieval or folk Irish, Scottish costume and bells.
Their musical tastes are also unique. Since audio recordings of flutes and bagpipes are difficult to find in stores, the guys copy them from each other. They listen to “Aquarium,” whose compositions are largely inspired by Tolkien, and “Cinema” (the theme of inner heroism).

We have already talked about the Tolkienists’ attention to applied arts and folk music. It would be strange if they did not go further to ethnography. In addition to celebrating J.R.R.'s birthdays. Tolkien, Frodo and Bilbo, the Hobbit New Year, they celebrate the Celtic New Year, Halloween (and try to restore its true meaning, which is very different from the stupid American “horror films”), St. Patrick’s Day, etc.

Tolkien's trilogy itself is a journey. Both this genre of literature and the hikes themselves are very attractive to children. Of course, reading M. Twain, M. Cervantes, D. Swift is very interesting, but no less exciting is going to the nearest (or not so) forest with a full set of equipment, setting up tents, making a fire, singing with a guitar, admiring the stars, returning and describing all this is in the Chronicle.

By the way, the stars are a very important part of the world of Middle-earth. Myths about stars and constellations, a map of the sky - Tolkienists are well versed in all of this.

They are also philosophers and psychologists, because they treat Man with attention and respect. And at the same time - lively, mischievous, inquisitive teenagers who write poetry, prose and music, draw, weave beaded things to each other, give bells and homemade swords and staves made of wood, and write in runes. They work, study, live. And they re-read Tolkien's books from time to time...

2. What else can your favorite books inspire you to do (theatrical production and publication of an electronic magazine in the library)

The basis of any library's activities is providing information to readers. But her activity is not exhausted or limited to this. (Perhaps then everything would be too formal and boring.)

The collection of any library consists of a wide variety of works. Regardless of what media they are stored on (paper, magnetic, electronic), all these works are the result of the creativity of people who lived in bygone eras and are living now.

The reader comes to the library and enters into communication with them. It is quite natural that this communication is not in vain for him, but touches certain strings in his soul. And when something doesn’t leave you indifferent, it goes without saying that it causes a response in you. Thus, a book that you don’t want to leave for good can inspire a lot.

Creativity doesn't usually blossom in a vacuum. Creative activity implies the creation of something qualitatively new, which no one else has created before, however, like everything in the world, it has its “roots”, and very often grows on the soil of fiction.

One of the striking examples of such creative activity, “growing up” from reading works of fiction, is the activity of the Order of Tolkienists (a reading association that exists in our library).

Thanks to Peter Jackson's acclaimed film trilogy based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", the name of the author of the novel is now on everyone's lips. Perhaps, if you go out into the street and ask the people you come across who this Tolkien is, the majority will still say that he is some kind of English writer, some will remember that he is the founder of the “fantasy” genre in modern literature, and even a very small a percentage of citizens will mention that Tolkien was a talented linguist and one of the authors of the Oxford Dictionary.

Most likely, these “very few” are among the admirers of the Professor’s work. And this number, although small compared to the total population of any city, can be quite large in itself (especially in large cities).

Tolkienists appeared in Kostanay in 1997, when the film adaptation of Tolkien’s books probably had not yet been dreamed of by Peter Jackson. And they “registered” in the reading room of the children’s and youth library, where they live to this day. Historically, the Kostanay Tolkienists were never characterized by the “combat” side of life - historical fencing, chain mail, armor, bows and arrows, although in other cities all this is very common. The Kostanay Order of Tolkienists has always been the custodian of minstrel and poetic traditions - library readers from the first days of the existence of this reading association composed poems, songs, fairy tales, parodies - both based on the works of Tolkien and on other, most diverse topics.
The Hedgehog magazine, published in the library since 2000, appeared precisely because readers’ creativity became cramped in secluded corners and wall newspapers. Then the library developed a project, the essence of which was the joint publication by librarians and readers of a quarterly magazine of readers' creativity. The project was supported by the Soros-Kazakhstan Foundation, and the first computer appeared in the library, with the help of which the first issues of the magazine were created. The headbands for the headings and the cover (as well as the emblem of our library) were drawn by reader Olga Boyko.

Now, five years later, the magazine continues to publish, and the editorial team, whose composition has changed several times over time, includes both librarians and readers. The magazine "Hedgehog", in addition to the reading rooms of Altynka and distribution points in other areas of the city, can be found on the Internet on the website of our library. Or you can come to the library and ask for the magazine not in paper, but in electronic form - in the form of slides created in PowerPoint. The slide “Hedgehog” is made immediately after the last typos from the file intended for printing on paper are corrected. But its creation is no less creative work than the selection of materials and layout of a paper magazine. This work does not boil down to copying elements from one file to another, but involves thinking through sound and animation effects, accompanied by the “turning of” electronic pages and the children’s poems, stories and drawings appearing on them. The readership of the editors also helps a lot with this.

And last year it turned out that Kostanay readers and admirers of Tolkien’s work are not only good at literary matters, but also musical and theatrical.
In September 2004, the Order was going through hard times - for various reasons, at that time it consisted of only 4 people, who desperately wanted this number to increase, like in the good old days. And then an IDEA dawned on us - to stage a parody musical based on the Professor’s fairy tale “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again”. The prototype for the current version of the script was a play written by Vadim Baranovsky, known among Russian Tolkienists and role-players as Ingvall the Sorcerer.

This work was a parody version of a famous fairy tale, made in the form of a musical based on famous songs, and even with elements of a parody of the Soviet full-length cartoon “Treasure Island”. I liked the idea, but the problem was this: no one knew half of the songs used in the musical or remembered them very vaguely (V. Baranovsky left for the USA in 1992 and most likely was not very familiar with new musical trends, preferring songs , time-tested, but not all of them are familiar to the modern viewer).
But I WANTED to stage a musical performance - despite the lack of actors, the lack of props and musical accompaniment. This desire turned out to be stronger than any difficulties.

To begin with, we set about reworking the script: we found a couple of karaoke discs and a bunch of audio cassettes with “backing tracks” of popular songs, made a list of all the melodies at our disposal, selected all the songs unknown to us from the creation of Ingvall the Sorcerer and began to select instead of each of them a new, more familiar to the ear of the modern listener, checking the huge list. At the same time, they tried to ensure that the meaning of the original song somehow resonated with the corresponding “aria” from the musical (for example, in the episode when the dwarves sail away in barrels from the dungeons of the Elven king to Lake Town, instead of the “River” from the film “Three in a Boat, Not Counting Dogs” inserted “Yellow Submarine” by The Beatles). Then we had to compose new lyrics to the selected melodies, trying to maintain the same meaning as in the original. In total, half of the script was replaced - 15 sheets of text out of 30.
The next step was preparing the sound track for the performance. Since most of the melodies were on audio cassettes, I had to convert them into sound files in the Sound forge program using a special adapter cord, then edit each excerpt in the Acoustic program, cutting out unnecessary verses and repetitions from it or inserting additional ones.
In parallel with this titanic work (after all, the performance uses not 10 songs, but as many as 60!), rehearsals were underway, and potential people wishing to take part in the performance were sought. Those who wished were constantly changing - some gradually ran out of desire, others - patience. Moreover, in order to participate in a performance where you have to sing for a whole hour and a half, you must have, if not a voice, then at least hearing. Everyone had to play 3-4 roles, because there weren’t enough people. For the same reason, there were many conventions in the performance - the armies, for example, were depicted by 2 people with a sign “Dwarven Army” or “Goblin Legion” in their hands. Rehearsals were held in the Dungeon - the assembly hall of the library. But, since all the people involved in the performance were, in addition, busy either with work or study, there was only about an hour and a half left for rehearsal. Then the library closed, and everyone went home, feverishly wondering where else they could go to rehearse in the evenings.
This grief was helped by a teacher of Russian language and literature from a neighboring school - in her office we rehearsed for a while after 18:00, trying inadvertently not to catch the eye of the angry head teacher.
And working on the soundtrack presented new problems - not everyone was comfortable singing in the keys in which the music was recorded. It turned out that in the Nero program you can raise and lower the key, and in Karaoke Player you can also raise the tempo. But that was not the problem - after all, it is necessary to tailor all his “arias” to each person involved in the performance, and there are also those that are sung by several people at once - it is necessary that the chosen key suits everyone. Where can you do this if you can’t sing in a reading room full of studying students and schoolchildren, and you can’t drag a computer into the assembly hall? Fortunately, the library management accommodated us and allowed us to do this on Saturdays in the scientific and methodological department, and we also managed to sometimes “ask” in the evenings to visit the children who had a computer. In parallel with this work, the creation of costumes, scenery and other props was going on - cloaks and hoods were sewn from curtains and everything that came to hand; a dragon's head was glued from papier-mâché based on balloons, wooden and cardboard swords, axes and crooked scimitars were pasted over with foil...
The final editing of the play's soundtrack was also not the easiest task - after all, it was necessary to connect fragments of 60 songs so that one piece of music smoothly flows into another, and overlay sound effects in the right places - the clanging of swords, the whistling of arrows, the stamping of feet, screams, birds chirping, the murmur of water, the roar of a dragon, the crackling of flames, the clinking of coins (the children selected all this sound wealth from computer games). Some of the melodies were pooledly downloaded from the Internet, some were played on the guitar and recorded through a microphone... In general, during the 4 months of preparation for the performance, no one was bored!
Finally, on December 18, 2004, the premiere of the parody “musical” “The Hobbit, or One Foot Here, the Other There” took place in the assembly hall of the library. The librarians, in whose eyes we tormented the poor hobbit for four months, came to see it, and many readers attracted by the poster, and journalists from the Alau television company, who made a short video about the performance, and the next day invited us to take part in the live broadcast of the morning program “ Wake-up clock.”

The play was performed three times - in addition to the premiere, there was also a screening for students of the very school where we were allowed to rehearse, and a “tour” to school-kindergarten No. 5 for students in grades 3-4. This is how the Wandering Theater of the Kostanay Order of Tolkienists appeared (wandering - because there was no need to rehearse anywhere!)

The theater plans to improve the soundtrack of “The Hobbit” and play it again and again. And also - to stage the same musical based on the first part (and the second too) of “The Lord of the Rings” (work on remaking the songs for it and editing the sound tracks is already underway).

At the beginning of August, the actors of our Wandering Theater paid a friendly visit to the Free Kingdom of Avalon in Chelyabinsk and, having attended the filming of their film, thought: shouldn’t we make a film-play from the same “The Hobbit”? And, returning to their homeland, we received an invitation from Chelyabinsk residents to perform this performance at UralRez!: - Ural Historical and Fantasy Festival, which will be held in Chelyabinsk in May 2006.
Our very, very immediate plans are to hold a costume concert of role-playing music in the library in the first half of September for a wide range of spectators and listeners - to introduce them to Russian role-playing folklore and our own minstrel creativity.
The organizers of the Kazakhstan role-playing festival in Astana have already invited Kostanay minstrels to take part in it in March 2006.

What, you ask, does all this have to do with the library and reading? And such is that, for example, many of the children who joined our theater soon signed up for the library, and of the 18 students and schoolchildren who played in the play, only 5-6 were previously familiar with Tolkien’s works. In the process of working on it, others “discovered” this author. And those who had previously read only “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” became acquainted with his other works. And not only Tolkien began to be read by children, but by a whole series of authors, both related and not related to the fantasy genre - after all, communication implies the intersection and mutual influence of different reading worlds.
“Young people are stopping reading because the computer is replacing the book, and will soon replace it completely” is a very common opinion. We habitually blame progress for reducing interest in reading, believing that this process does not depend on us and we cannot influence it. Is this so?

After all, what difference does it make whether you read books printed on paper or displayed on a monitor? The point here is not the very fact of the existence of computers, but how to use them - whether to play “adventure-shooter games”, read books in electronic form, or create something new using a computer.

And books - they will always be in demand, even if in the future electronic publications replace paper ones. That is why it is useful for the library not to be afraid of computers, and to see them not as enemies and competitors, but as another useful device that, with skillful creative use, can be used to benefit the cause.

Reading as a hobby. - Collection of articles - Moscow - 2007.

Full name - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

An incorrect but common transcription is Tolkien.

Years of life: 1892 - 1973.

English writer, linguist, philologist, best known as the author of the story “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again” and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.

We also offer literature on the topic from the Kanavinskaya Central Library collection:

Works:

1. Tolkien J. Fellowship of the Ring. The first chronicle from the epic "The Lord of the Rings"/ lane from English: V. Volkovsky, D. Afinogenov, V. Vosedoy; edited by T.A. Velimeeva. – Moscow: AST; St. Petersburg: Terra Fantastica, 2003. - 560 p. : ill.
2. Tolkien J.R.R. Lord of the Rings: in 3 volumes / trans. from English: N. Grigorieva, V. Grushetsky; ill. D. Gordeeva; edited by V. Volkova. - St. Petersburg: ABC; TERRA. - (Saga of Unknown Lands).
   T. 1: The Fellowship of the Ring. - 1997. - 544 p.
   T. 2: Two Towers. - 1997. - 416 p.
   T. 3: Return of the King. - 1997. - 416 p.

1. Tolkien J.R.R. Children of Hurin. Narn and Hin Hurin: The Tale of the Children of Hurin/ artist A. Lee; lane from English S. Likhacheva; edited by K. Tolkien. - Moscow: AST, 2008. - 320 p.
2. Tolkien J.R.R. Blacksmith of Greater Wootton: fairy tale / trans. from English: Y. Nagibina, E. Gippius; preface Yu. Nagibina; artist S. Island. - Moscow: Children's literature, 1988. - 59 p. : ill.
3. Tolkien J.R.R. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Stories: collection / trans. from English S. Stepanova. - St. Petersburg: Azbuka, 2003. - 416 p. - (Wonderland).
4. Tolkien J.R.R. Roverand; Blacksmith of Greater Wootton: fairy tales / trans. from English: N. Shantyr, V. Matorina; artist: V. Chelaka, P. Baines. - Moscow: AST; Astrel; Guardian, 2007. - 224 p. : ill. - (Extracurricular reading).
5. Tolkien J.R.R.The Silmarillion/ lane from English: N. Grigorieva, V. Grushetsky; edited by K. Tolkien; artist T. Kane. - St. Petersburg: North-West, 1993. - 384 p.
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About life and work:

1. Abrosimova A.A. In the footsteps of Bilbo Baggins: [based on the tale of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit: There and Back Again"]: literary game for students of grades 7-9. // Read, study, play. - 2005. - No. 1. - P. 57-59.
2. Zaikova Yu.S. Following the brave Bilbo: reader's conference on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" with competitions and crossword puzzles for middle school students // Read, learn, play. - 2015. - No. 3. - P. 48-56.
3. Zubareva T.G. A lesson-trip based on John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's fairy tale "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again"// Literature at school. - 2011. - No. 1. - P. 40-42.
4. Kopeikin A. The Complete History of Middle-earth// Read, study, play. - 2003. - No. 6. - P. 103-105.
5. Lou P. Ronald Tolkien: Master of Middle-earth// Caravan of stories. - 2010. - No. 12. - P. 142-169.
6. Martianova O.V.Welcome to Middle Earth: a literary evening dedicated to the work of J.R.R. Tolkien // Read, learn, play. - 2006. - No. 11. - P. 21-27.
7. Muravyov A.V."The feeling of translating the first part was absolutely amazing...": [history of the first translation of "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien]: conversation with the translator’s son / A. V. Muravyov; conversations E. Kalashnikova
   // Foray into reality. An anthology of English-language prose translated by Vladimir Muravyov. - Moscow, 2012. - P. 470-477.
8. Oxford Professor of Anglo-Saxon: [John Tolkien]// Geolenok. - 2012. - No. 12. - P. 35.
9. Pereslegina M. Great Readers: [J. R.R. Tolkien about his childhood reading] // Read, learn, play. - 2003. - No. 3. - P. 109.
10. Poryadina M.E. The language of ancient legends: a quiz game based on the story "The Hobbit" // We read, study, play. - 2002. - No. 1. - P. 122-126.
11. Smirnova O.V. What is there to talk about? "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien in class// Literature-First of September. - 2012. - No. 6. - P. 23-30.
12. Sokolov A. We are all a little hobbits, or "Little Man" and the Big Evil/ A. Sokolov, A. Tkachenko // Foma. - 2013. - No. 1. - P. 22-23.
13. Trubnikova N.N. Visiting the Hobbits: quiz // Read, learn, play. - 2003. - No. 6. - P. 30-32.
14. White M. John R.R. Tolkien: biography / trans. from English A. Blaze; artist E. Savchenko. - Moscow: Eksmo, 2002. - 320 p. : ill. - (Genius loci).
15. Frolova O.V. Where is “there and back”: [scenario of a literary game - a journey through the works of R. Tolkien] // Read, learn, play. - 1996. - No. 10. - P. 99-102.
16. Epple N. The Hobbit. Poems and Parables of Middle-earth: [biography of R. Tolkien and his friendship with C. Lewis] / interviewed by V. Posashko // Thomas. - 2013. - No. 1. - P. 14-21.