|
FAQ | Members List | Calendar |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
06-12-2015, 08:00 AM | #4 | |
Elven Warrior
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 222
|
Quote:
As I'm sure you know Alcuin, in letter 131 Tolkien explained: "There is The Children of Hurin, the tragic tale of Turin Turumbar and his sister Niniel -- of which Turin is the hero: a figure that might be said (by people who like this sort of thing, though it is not very useful) to be derived from elements in Sigurd, the Volsung, Oedipus, and the Finnish Kullervo." To (try to) answer your question from my own subjective viewpoint, I think I would have to read the Kullervo tale myself at least, and while this section isn't very long (subjective as that is), I haven't arrived there yet. I haven't read Tolkien's version in Tolkien Studies as I want to read the runes first, but I did read his essays. http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/kvrune31.htm The link to the next rune appears at the bottom of the page (spoiler alert: Kullervo throws himself upon his sword in rune 36) I am reading the Kalevala rather slowly (and I mean slowly, as I pick it up from time to time and read a rune or two), and have not yet reached these particular runes. I'm not sure I would be very good with this sort of question in any case. Anyway, here is what Tom Shippey had to say, although I am sure there are other opinions and comments about. https://books.google.com/books?id=8L...0Turin&f=false Now I feel like reading another rune or two! Last edited by Galin : 06-12-2015 at 08:15 AM. |
|
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Accuracy of Tolkien’s physical descriptions of characters | Alcuin | Middle Earth | 10 | 02-28-2009 04:37 PM |
BBC's LotR audio version from 80s | jusu | Lord of the Rings Books | 11 | 04-04-2003 05:57 PM |
FoTR Extended Version | Woodenpipe | Lord of the Rings Movies | 4 | 01-25-2003 10:41 PM |
ballantine comic book style version, illustrated by david wenzel | Varda | The Hobbit (book) | 10 | 01-09-2002 10:13 AM |
a little orientation needed | DrFledermaus | The Silmarillion | 9 | 02-12-2001 05:48 AM |