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Nick Perumov (Russian: Ник Перумов) is the pen name of Nikolay Daniilovich Perumov (Russian:...

Nick Perumov (Russian: Ник Перумов) is the pen name of Nikolay Daniilovich Perumov (Russian: Николай Даниилович Перумов; born 21 November 1963), a famous Russian fantasy and science fiction writer. Perumov was born November 21, 1963 in Leningrad, USSR. He began writing short stories since he was a teenager, and after reading The Lord of the Rings in the early 1980s, he became a fantasy fan. After studying at the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute, Perumov worked at a research institute, and later as a translator. In 1985-1991 he wrote Нисхождение тьмы (Descending of Darkness), a fantasy duology, which consisted of two novels: Эльфийский Клинок (Elven Blade) and Черное Копье (Black Lance). The events of the book took place in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, 300 years after the War of the Ring. His novel, as Perumov says, was just fan fiction written for friends, before one of his colleagues offered to publish this work. In 1993 the duology, re-edited and re-named Кольцо Тьмы (Ring of Darkness) was published in Severo-Zapad publishing, which paid Perumov just $300. Ring of Darkness has sold at least 100,000 copies, and ranked high in popularity among Russian fantasy readers, though