The story of Kullervo

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The work The story of Kullervo represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Billerica Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The story of Kullervo

Statement of responsibility

J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Verlyn Flieger

Title variation

Kullervo

Creator

• Tolkien, J. R. R., (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973

Contributor

• Flieger, Verlyn, 1933-

Author

• Tolkien, J. R. R., (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973

Editor

• Flieger, Verlyn, 1933-

Subject

• FICTION / Fantasy / General
• Fantasy fiction
• Magicians -- Fiction
• Revenge -- Fiction
• Slavery -- Fiction
• Young men -- Fiction
• Adaptations

Genre

• Fantasy fiction
• Fiction
• Adaptations

Language

eng

Summary

"The first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien. 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 Turin Turambar, tragic incestuous hero of The Silmarillion. Published here for the first time 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. "--

Member of

• Kalevala

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.914

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR6039.O32

LC item number

S86 2016

Literary form

fiction