29.12.2005, 14:28
A propos de savoir si Turambar est bien inspiré du Kalevala, j'ai enfin retrouvé une citation de Tolkien qui, je pense, règlera la question.
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Tolkien, dans la lettre 1, à Edith Bratt a écrit :...That quaint man Earp I have told you of and introduced him (to his great delight) to the Kalevala, the Finnish ballads.
Amongst another works I am trying to turn one of his stories - which is really a very great story and most tragic - into a short story somewhat on the lines of Morris' romances with chunks of poetry in between
En note (6) à cette phrase, H. Carpenter a écrit :Tolkien's reworking of one of the Kalevala stories, the story of Kullervo, was never finished, but proved to be the germ of the story of Turin Turambar in the Silmarillion
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