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J. R. R. Tolkien

“I never learned Finnish well enough to do more than plod through a bit of the original, like a schoolboy with Ovid … But the beginning of the legendarium … was in an attempt to reorganise some of the Kalevala, especially the tale of Kullervo the hapless, into a form of my own.”
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Captured 2026-08-15 from The Guardian. The archived copy is preserved so this citation survives link rot.

J. R. R. Tolkien · 1955