An unfinished manuscript from Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien will be published later this month.
CNN reports that Tolkien began writing the book, titled The Story of Kullervo, when he was a student at Oxford University in 1914. He had based it on a character in the Finnish poem, The Kalevala. According to the publisher, Tolkien credited the story as his first attempt to write his own legend, and said it was "a major matter in the legends of the First Age."
In the poem, the Kullervo's tribe is slaughtered and he's taken as a slave. He ultimately kills those responsible, then commits suicide. Tolkien reportedly puts a more fantastical spin on it, having Kullervo raised by Untamo, a dark magician. Untamo killed his father and kidnapped his mother, and attempted to kill Kullervo multiple times.
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CNN reports that Tolkien began writing the book, titled The Story of Kullervo, when he was a student at Oxford University in 1914. He had based it on a character in the Finnish poem, The Kalevala. According to the publisher, Tolkien credited the story as his first attempt to write his own legend, and said it was "a major matter in the legends of the First Age."
In the poem, the Kullervo's tribe is slaughtered and he's taken as a slave. He ultimately kills those responsible, then commits suicide. Tolkien reportedly puts a more fantastical spin on it, having Kullervo raised by Untamo, a dark magician. Untamo killed his father and kidnapped his mother, and attempted to kill Kullervo multiple times.
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