The Story of Kullervo

J.R.R. Tolkien

Culervo, Calervo's son, is perhaps one of the darkest and most irrationally attractive heroes of J. R. R. Tolkien. The "unfortunate Cullervo", as Tolkien called him, was an orphan boy with supernatural powers and tragic fate. Raised in the awful mansion of the mighty and ruthless Udamo, who had killed his father, captured his mother and tried to kill him three times himself when he was still a little boy, Coulervo would have walked life alone if he did not have the love and support of his twin sister, Guanona, but also the protection offered to him by the magic of the dog Musti. When he was finally sold as a slave, he vowed to avenge Udamos. However, before taking the revenge he was planning, he realized in the most painful way that no one can escape the relentless fate…

The History of Cullervo, first published along with Tolkien's drafts, notes, and essay on Calevala, which inspired him to write this work, can be considered the archetypal source of his "mythology of England." ».