The story of kullervo

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Sinopse

The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father.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 who tries three times to kill him when still a boy, Kullervo is alone save for the love of his twin sister, Wanona, and guarded by the magical powers of the black dog, Musti. 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 cruellest of fates.Tolkien wrote 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’; his Kullervo was the ancestor of Túrin Turambar, tragic incestuous hero of The Silmarillion. In addition to being a powerful story in its own right, The Story of Kullervo – published here for the first time with the author’s drafts, notes and lecture-essays on its source-work, The Kalevala, is a foundation stone in the structure of Tolkien’s invented world.

Participantes

Autor: J. R. R. Tolkien

Organizador: Verlyn Flieger

Autor

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

J. R. R.Tolkien nasceu em 3 de janeiro de 1892 em Bloemfontein. Após servir na Primeira Guerra Mundial, Tolkien empreendeu uma notável carreira acadêmica e foi reconhecido como um dos maiores filólogos do mundo. No entanto, ele é mais conhecido como criador da Terra Média e autor de obras de ficção clássicas e extraordinárias como O Hobbit, O Senhor dos Anéis e O Silmarillion. Seus livros foram traduzidos para mais de 40 línguas e venderam muitos milhões de exemplares no mundo todo. Ele recebeu o título de CBE (Comandante da Ordem do Império Britânico) e um doutorado honorário em Letras da Universidade de Oxford em 1972. Faleceu em 1973, aos 81 anos de idade.