[PDF] Tolkien And The Kalevala eBook

Author : Jyrki Korpua
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2024-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040151612

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This book explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s unique and warm relationship to the Kalevala, a poem usually hailed as the Finnish and Karelian national epic, compiled, edited and partly revisioned from older folk poetry by Finnish scholar Elias Lönnrot in the 19th century. J. R. R. Tolkien, an Oxford academic and the greatest author of the 20th-century fantasy, creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was fascinated from early on by the Kalevala. Tolkien himself described the Kalevala as “a germ” of his fantasy fiction.

Author : J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544706323

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“Shows how Finnish mythology and folk tales were instrumental to how Tolkien created his own legendarium.”—Boston Globe 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 Túrin Turambar, the tragic incestuous hero of The Silmarillion. Published 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. “A fascinating read.”—NPR

Author : Juha Y. Pentikainen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 1999-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253213525

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It was the Kalevala that initiated the process leading to the foundation of Finnish identity during the nineteenth century and was, therefore, one of the crucial factors in the formation of Finland as a new nation in the twentieth century.

Author : Elias Lönnrot
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0241403073

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'One of the great mythic poems of Europe' The New York Times Sharing its title with the poetic name for Finland - 'the land of heroes' - Kalevala is the soaring epic poem of its people, a work rich in magic and myth which tells the story of a nation through the ages from the dawn of creation. Sung by rural Finns since prehistoric times, and formally compiled by Elias Lönnrot in the nineteenth century, it is a landmark of Finnish culture and played a vital role in galvanizing its national identity in the decades leading to independence. Its themes, however, reach beyond borders and search the heart of human existence. Translated with an Introduction by Eino Friberg

Author : J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 2014-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0544363795

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This collection will entertain all who appreciate the art of masterful letter writing. The Letters of J.R.R Tolkien sheds much light on Tolkien's creative genius and grand design for the creation of a whole new world: Middle-earth. Featuring a radically expanded index, this volume provides a valuable research tool for all fans wishing to trace the evolution of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.

Author : Jane Chance
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813129631

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[In this book, the] essays illuminate the crucial episodes, characters, style, language, and concpets central to Tolkien's complex world.-Dust jacket.

Author : Jane Chance
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2001-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813170869

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" J.R.R. Tolkien's zeal for medieval literary, religious, and cultural ideas deeply influenced his entire life and provided the seeds for his own fiction. In Tolkien's Art, Chance discusses not only such classics as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, but focuses on his minor works as well, outlining in detail the sources and influences–from pagan epic to Christian legend-that formed the foundation of Tolkien's masterpieces, his "mythology for England."

Author : Christopher Allen Snyder
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
ISBN : 9781402784767

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Examines the real-world influences that shaped J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novels The hobbit and The lord of the rings.

Author : Mauri Kunnas
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Dogs
ISBN : 9789511124429

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Recasts the legendary adventures of three Finnish heroes who are rivals for the hand of the Maiden of Pohja with characters from a tribe of wild and wooly dogs of the gloomy North.

Author : Grant P. Hudson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781326507268

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This book is a powerful tool for understanding fiction and for transforming creative writing and taking it to new levels of clarity, energy and effectiveness. Learn what a story really is and what it is actually doing to and for readers, how all successful fiction follows universal patterns to attract and grip readers, the magnetic power that draws readers into a work of fiction even before the introduction of any character, what the thing called a 'character' actually is, and the secrets of how to rapidly build a convincing one that attracts readers, the things called 'plots', what they are and how they are actually made (rather than how you might suppose they are made). Find out about the writing model which, if followed, will create a machine generating unimaginable numbers of readers and heightened reader satisfaction for you, based on some of the most successful pieces of literature in the English-speaking world.