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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: story of Kullervo
  title info:
    title: Kullervo
  title info:
    title: Kalevala
  name:
    name part: Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
    name part: 1892-1973
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Flieger, Verlyn
    name part: 1933-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Fantasy fiction.
  genre: Adaptations.
  genre: Fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2015
    edition: First U.S. edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  abstract: "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. "--
  abstract: 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. The story-- only forty pages long-- is followed by essays and commentaries on Tolkien's work, and on the source material.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The story of Kullervo -- List of names -- Draft plot synopses. Notes and commentary -- Introduction to the essays -- On "The Kalevala" or Land of heroes. Notes and commentary -- The Kalevala. Notes and commentary -- Tolkien, Kalevala, and "The story of Kullervo" / by Verlyn Flieger.
  note: J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Verlyn Flieger.
  note: Tolkien's Story is based on the Kullervo cycle in the Karelian and Finnish epic poem Kalevala. It first appeared in 2010 in Tolkien Studies (Volume VII / edited by Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger; Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press) and was republished in August 2015 by HarperCollins (London).
  subject:
    topic: Young men
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Magicians
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Revenge
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Kalevala
  subject:
    topic: Epic poetry, Finnish
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Fantasy / General
  subject:
    topic: Magicians
  subject:
    topic: Revenge
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
  subject:
    topic: Young men
  classification: PR6039.O32 S86 2016
  classification: 823/.914
  classification: FIC009000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Story of Kullervo
    name:
      name part: Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973, author.
    origin info:
      publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016
  identifier: 9780544706262
  identifier: 0544706269
  identifier: 2015042718
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 151230
    record change date: 20170928112600.0
    record identifier: in00003614185
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng