Poetry· 1835· Fantasy
Kalevala: 2 recorded works trace back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
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Tolkien read the Kalevala in Finnish as a student and began retelling its Kullervo cycle in 1914, the first of his legends. Kullervo, the doomed son who unknowingly seduces his sister and dies by his own sword, became Túrin Turambar, and Tolkien said the Kalevala set him on the road to making a mythology of his own.
Michael Moorcock's Elric is counted among the Kalevala's descendants: the doomed albino prince drew on Kullervo, the epic's cursed and self-destroying hero (Kalevala reception history).
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Real world
Elias Lönnrot compiled the Kalevala from Finnish and Karelian folk poetry he collected from rune singers on his field trips.