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Anonymous Tue Aug 11 23:15:07 2015 No.6964428 [Reply] [Original]

>Tolkien fans rejoice! The Lord of the Rings author's estate will soon release a 100-year-old manuscript that was never before released to the public. Titled The Story of Kullervo, the work is one of Tolkien's earliest efforts, and helped lay the foundation for the stories he'd tell about Middle Earth throughout his career.

>Tolkien started Kullervo in 1914, during his college days at Oxford University. The tale, which follows the tragic story of an orphan cursed with supernatural powers, is based on the Finnish epic poem The Kalevala, and though he never finished it in his lifetime, he used this work as a basis for his own stories and languages:

>"The germ of my attempt to write legends of my own to fit my private languages was the tragic tale of the hapless Kullervo in the Finnish Kalevala. It remains a major matter in the legends of the First Age (which I hope to publish as The Silmarillion)"
>Though this is the first time Kullervo is being made available for public consumption, the manuscript was originally published in 2010 by author and Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger in Tolkien Studies: Volume 7. The Story of Kullervo, complete with notes and supplementary essays,will hit bookstores in the UK on August 27th. It'll be available in America on October 27th.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/10/9127969/tolkien-story-of-kullervo-publish-unfinished-story

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 11 23:17:43 2015 No.6964446 >>6964428 Is there were celebrate the release of material an author probably felt wasn't worthy of release that is being released by a money-hungry estate?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 11 23:20:48 2015 No.6964461 File: 9 KB, 198x175, Patrick thinking too hard.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6964446 >Is there were celebrate the release of material an author probably felt wasn't worthy of release that is being released by a money-hungry estate?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 06:02:05 2015 No.6965654 >>6964446 Is there was anything who you typed that understood what the fuck you just said?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 06:23:53 2015 No.6965708 TOASTING IN EPIC BREAD XD!

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 07:34:23 2015 No.6965911 >>6964446 Maybe, years after you're dead, someone will unearth this post of yours for release, or psychological insight.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 09:29:55 2015 No.6966325 >>6964446 is there frodo fly the ring in the volcano

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 09:50:17 2015 No.6966382 Finland mentioned, we'll meet at the marketplace.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 09:53:22 2015 No.6966386 >>6964446 But for release money bags sure, however this isn't a problem like Kafka we didn't care. Either way yearly material maybe interesting.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 10:00:44 2015 No.6966408 Why should I care about this low brow, pedestrian tripe? Any text that focuses on storytelling is worthy only of paperback, bathroom literature.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 11:41:05 2015 No.6966752 >>6964428 Harry Potter is better than Lord of the Rings

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 15:53:56 2015 No.6967614 >>6966752 get better b8 faggot

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 15:57:23 2015 No.6967633 File: 35 KB, 400x400, has_anyone.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6964446

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 16:48:24 2015 No.6967863 Sounds like someone is taking a page from Harper Lee's draft ;)

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 18:26:39 2015 No.6968243 >>6964446 Time to get out of the sun, buddy, okay?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 18:41:06 2015 No.6968294 File: 121 KB, 1024x683, torille.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why not just read Kalevala itself though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 19:39:35 2015 No.6968531 >>6968294 >Vaka Vanha Väinämöinen for 400 pages No thanks.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 05:01:40 2015 No.6970556 File: 244 KB, 410x307, meg-egy-kutyulas-lemminkainen-harcba-indul-az-eredeti-gallen-kallela-kepen-kullervo-de-tragikus.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6968531 There's a kids version for you, just like there are children's bibles.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 05:04:47 2015 No.6970562 >>6964446 What the fuck. I get what you meant to say after re-reading it. insert Is there a reason to celebrate* and it makes sense but how did you even accomplish such fuckery of the english language.

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Anonymous Thu Aug 13 05:15:58 2015 No.6970578

>>6964428
If I ever become a famous writer (I won't) I will order in my will for everything that is a draft or anything of the sort to be burned

Purely so some fucking great nephew or some shit can't earn off a fortune of shit I never wanted to release

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 05:22:35 2015 No.6970586 >>6968531 >he doesn't want to witness the saving of the sampo just read the scrooge mcduck version then faggot

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 05:32:01 2015 No.6970597 >>6970578 So did Kafka, m8

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 05:32:18 2015 No.6970598 >>6968531 Start with the Ancient Finns

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 05:35:54 2015 No.6970602 >>6970562 Perhaps they were going for "Is this where we". Would make more semisense to me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 05:38:54 2015 No.6970605 File: 36 KB, 680x357, meme shouding.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Finland Tolkien confirmed for master memer, get ready for ES potions and pic related :DDD

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 08:08:46 2015 No.6970923 >>6970605 >HI WHERE ARE THE SAMPO

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 08:11:50 2015 No.6970927 >>6966382 Tää

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 09:02:24 2015 No.6971080 File: 202 KB, 743x568, tv-arkisto_1958_fesillanpaa70ar_4x3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6966382 This is now Finnish literature thread.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 09:08:43 2015 No.6971099 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egyptian Strongly recommend every non-finn (i assume all the finns have read it) to read this, outstanding classic