{"id":11083,"date":"2022-11-20T09:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T09:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=11083"},"modified":"2022-11-20T09:59:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T09:59:55","slug":"new-book-tolkien-ja-kalevala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2022\/11\/20\/new-book-tolkien-ja-kalevala\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Tolkien ja Kalevala"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jyrki Korpua’s Tolkien ja Kalevala<\/em> (‘Tolkien and the Kalevala’<\/em>, 2022, \u00a328) is a new book relevant to the young Tolkien. It’s in Finnish and about Tolkien and his discovery and engagement with the Finnish national folk-epic the Kalevala<\/em>. Like many of his time, the young Tolkien found such (then relatively newly-recovered\/reconstructed) Northern mythology fresher than the well-worn southern myths of Greece and Rome. Also a window through which to peer into the deep past of a harsh and misty North. But according to reviews the new book’s author also asks if “Tolkien would have started to create a larger world without the Kalevala”<\/em>, and if it would have lacked certain key character types, ideas, activities (song and music) and heroic tasks.<\/p>\n

Tolkien ja Kalevala<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/p>\n

I. From folklore to fantasy<\/em><\/p>\n

About role models, ancient heroes.
\nLonnrot’s Kalevala<\/em>.
\nTolkien’s known Kalevala<\/em>.
\nTolkien’s production.
\nWhat did Tolkien think of the Kalevala<\/em>?
\nFusions of the Finnish language and the Kalevala<\/em> in Tolkien.<\/p>\n

II. The Kalevala<\/em> story and Tolkien’s fantasy world<\/em><\/p>\n

World creation and world order.
\nSinging contests and courtship tasks.
\nSampo and the Silmarils.
\nIntermissions.
\nThe end of the story.<\/p>\n

III. The dark parts of Tolkien’s world<\/em><\/p>\n

The power of song, music and words.
\nNature and the elements.
\nVainamoinen.
\nFrom Louhe.
\nFrom Ilmarinen.
\nFrom Kullervo.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/p>\n

Afterwords<\/p>\n

References
\nSources
\nDirectory [Glossary?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jyrki Korpua’s Tolkien ja Kalevala (‘Tolkien and the Kalevala’, 2022, \u00a328) is a new book relevant to the young Tolkien. It’s in Finnish and about Tolkien and his discovery and engagement with the Finnish national folk-epic the Kalevala. Like many of his time, the young Tolkien found such (then relatively newly-recovered\/reconstructed) Northern mythology fresher than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}