02650cam a2200337 4500 260083272 TxAuBib 20160318120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780544706323 0544706323 B011H55MNQ Amazon 909f016e-e4b0-4237-b4f7-43bd6ffab734 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2287408 OverDrive (Product ID) 2287408 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Tolkien, J.R.R. The Story of Kullervo [Libby eBook]. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6787kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 6787kB. HTML:<p><b>The first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien</b><br /> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Tolkien himself said that <i>The Story of Kullervo</i> 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, tragic incestuous hero of <i>The Silmarillion</i>. Published here for the first time with the author's drafts, notes, and lecture essays on its source work, the <i>Kalevala</i>, <i>The Story of Kullervo</i> is a foundation stone in the structure of Tolkien's invented world.</p>. Fantasy. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-04-05 20:00:02. Flieger, Verlyn. http://westtexas.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=909f016e-e4b0-4237-b4f7-43bd6ffab734 http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=909f016e-e4b0-4237-b4f7-43bd6ffab734&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=909f016e-e4b0-4237-b4f7-43bd6ffab734&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) MULAP