Verlyn Flieger
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien. Kullervo, son of Kalervo, is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien's characters. "Hapless Kullervo," as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny. Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and tried three times to kill him when he was still...
2) Pig tale
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A foundling, no longer able to endure the abuse of the villagers, leaves at age fifteen and is drawn to three mysterious strangers who help her discover her true self and where her destiny lies.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxi, 106 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Coming from the darker side of J.R.R. Tolkien's imagination, this is an important non Middle-earth work to set alongside his other retellings of existing myth and legend, "The Legend of Sigurd and GudrĂșn," "The Fall of Arthur," and "The Story of Kullervo."