Long, long ago, after the economic crisis was apparently on the wane, there lived two brothers in a big city. Nikita, the younger brother, was an ordinary . . . hobbit, the captain of crossbow shooters from the Clan of Bald Hills. He loved beer, RPGs, the Elven Leaf, a girl named Nastya, books about Middle-earth—and, most of all, doing absolutely nothing. His older bother, Yegor, was a top executive in a big oil company. But in the life of any top executive there are good days and there are days when you . . . get fired.One day Yegor found himself without a job, without an office, and without a girlfriend. That was when Yegor decided to turn to his younger brother for help. Nikita has a host of problems of his own: the Mattock of Thorin the Great, Nikita’s friend and comrade in arms, has disappeared . . .