Timeline for How did Túrin's sword speak?
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| Oct 31, 2022 at 6:46 | comment | added | David Roberts | @TheLethalCarrot I thought it was well-known that Túrin is basically Kullervo? See eg from a 2016 review of Tolkien's Story of Kullervo: "It's long been known, for example, that the first language Tolkien created for his Elves was based on Finnish; and that Tùrin Tùrambar, the charismatic, doomed anti-hero of Tolkien's Silmarillion, was based on the equally doomed Kullervo." (npr.org/2016/04/10/471619609/…) | |
| Aug 19, 2020 at 17:15 | comment | added | TRiG | That is insightful. Thanks. | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 1:20 | comment | added | Mary | Tolkien wrote to W.H. Auden, ""the beginning of the legendarium [...] was in an attempt to reorganize some of the Kalevala, especially the tale of Kullervo the hapless, into a form of my own." | |
| Aug 17, 2020 at 20:36 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot♦ | Apart from drawing similarities do you have any evidence that he did in fact base the story on that one? If so could you edit that in? | |
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| Aug 17, 2020 at 20:20 | history | answered | Erdariel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |