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The Story of Kullervo. No Us Rights by Tolkien, J. R. R.; Flieger, Verlyn is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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,

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Author

Tolkien, J. R. R.; Flieger, Verlyn

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780008131364

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry

Rating

3.39 / 5 (856 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14