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*[[Kalevala#Túrin Turambar and Kullervo|Túrin Turambar and Kullervo]]
*[[Kalevala#Túrin Turambar and Kullervo|Túrin Turambar and Kullervo]]
*[[Tolkien Studies: Volume 7]]
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[[CATEGORY:Manuscripts by J.R.R. Tolkien|Story of Kullervo]]
[[CATEGORY:Manuscripts by J.R.R. Tolkien|Story of Kullervo]]

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The Story of Kullervo is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien's reworking of one of the Kalevala stories.

In a 1914 letter to Edith Bratt, Tolkien mentions that he is "trying to turn one of the stories [from the Kalevala] — which is really a very great story and most tragic – into a short story".[1] Humphrey Carpenter notes that "'The Story of Kullervo', was never finished, but proved to be the germ of the story of Túrin Turambar in The Silmarillion".[2]

The manuscript remained unpublished for many years, but was published in 2010 in Tolkien Studies: Volume 7, edited and with a commentary by Verlyn Flieger.

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