The book contains articles, essays and lectures by J. R. R. Tolkien on alliterative poetry, Middle English literature, Celtology, the problem of creating artificial languages ​ ​ and the specifics of Oxford education. The collection "Monsters and Critics" and other articles "- an integral part of the English" Tolkinians "and a significant phenomenon in the history of literature as a whole, is first published in Russian in full, preserving the structure and reference apparatus of the original. The texts are provided with extensive comments from translators.