The story of Kullervo
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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.
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The story of Kullervo
2016, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
in English
- First U.S. edition.
0544706269 9780544706262
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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).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168).
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