Tolkien and the Kalevala
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 19 August 2024
- ISBN 9781032852270
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages120 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 381 g
- Language English 638
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Short description:
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, combiled, edited and partly revisioned from older folk poetry by Finnish scholar Elias Lönnrot in the 19th century.
MoreLong description:
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.
"Jyrki Korpua brings new depth to Tolkien?s world-building with his delightful introduction to the song-built world of the Kalevala, which both inspired Tolkien?s earliest stories and resonates throughout his legendarium from the music of Creation to the songs of Tom Bombadil."
Rachel Fulton Brown, Associate Professor of Medieval History, Fundamentals, and the College, The University of Chicago, USA
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Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. From folk tradition to fantasy
On J. R. R. Tolkien
On role models, ancient heroes
The Kalevalas of Lönnrot
The Kalevala Tolkien knew
Tolkien?s works
What did Tolkien think of the Kalevala?
The merging of Finnish language and the Kalevala in Tolkien
3. The story of the Kalevala and Tolkien?s fantasy world
World creation and world order
Song battles and quests before marriage
The Sampo and the Silmarils
Interludes
The end of the tale
4 The Kalevalaic parts of Tolkien?s world
The might of singing, music and words
Nature and the elements
On Väinämöinen
On Louhi
On Ilmarinen
On Kullervo
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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