Record Details

Catalog Search

Search The Catalog


Back To Results
Showing Item 1 of 1
The story of Kullervo Cover Image Book

The story of Kullervo

Kullervo (portion title)
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) 1892-1973 (author.). Flieger, Verlyn 1933- (editor.).

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. "--

Record details

  • ISBN: 0544706269
  • ISBN: 9780544706262
  • Physical Description: print
    xxiii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First United States edition
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

Content descriptions

General 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).
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168).
Formatted Contents Note:
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.

Search for related items by subject

Subject:
Kalevala Kalevala
Epic poetry, Finnish History and criticism
Magicians Fiction
Revenge Fiction
Slavery Fiction
Young men Fiction
Genre:
Adaptations.
Fantasy fiction.

Available copies

  • 32 of 35 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 35 total copies.
Sort by distance from:
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Jacksonville Main Library FIC TOLKIEN (Text) 36015000353728 Adult Fiction Available -
Sneads Ferry Branch Library FIC TOLKIEN (Text) 36015001290440 Adult Fiction Available -
Back To Results
Showing Item 1 of 1