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The Story of Kullervo: An Epic Dark Fantasy from Finnish Mythology – Tolkien's Foundation for The Silmarillion - Softcover

Tolkien, J.R.R.

 
9780544947245: The Story of Kullervo: An Epic Dark Fantasy from Finnish Mythology – Tolkien's Foundation for The Silmarillion
Softcover
ISBN 10: 054494724X ISBN 13: 9780544947245
Verlag: Mariner Books, 2017

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“Shows how Finnish mythology and folk tales were instrumental to how Tolkien created his own legendarium.”—Boston Globe
 
Kullervo, son of Kalervo, is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien’s characters. “Hapless Kullervo,” as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny.
 
Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and tried three times to kill him when he was still a boy, Kullervo is alone save for the love of his twin sister, Wanona, and the magical powers of the black dog Musti, who guards him. When Kullervo is sold into slavery he swears revenge on the magician, but he will learn that even at the point of vengeance there is no escape from the cruelest of fates.
 
Tolkien himself said that The Story of Kullervo was “the germ of my attempt to write legends of my own,” and was “a major matter in the legends of the First Age.” Tolkien’s Kullervo is the clear ancestor of Túrin Turambar, the tragic incestuous hero of The Silmarillion. Published with the author’s drafts, notes, and lecture essays on its source work, the Kalevala, The Story of Kullervo is a foundation stone in the structure of Tolkien’s invented world.
 
“A fascinating read.”—NPR

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J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over sixty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.

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Verlag
Mariner Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
054494724X
ISBN 13 
9780544947245
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
Herausgeber
Flieger Verlyn
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