Journals4
Newest
100 point giveaway winner is...
1 min read
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
Song + Video
1 min read
Beatstrumental from Puuronen on Vimeo.
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
Kalevala - National epic of Finland
The man behind Kalevala - Elias Lönnrot
Famous paintings by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Defending the Sampo
Lemminkäinen's Mother (1897, 85x118, canvas)
Kullervo's Curse (1899, 186x105, oil, canvas)
Kullervo Departs for the War
The Forging of the Sampo (1893, 200x151, oil, canvas)
J.R.R. Tolkien & Kalevala
The Finnish mythology, as presented in the Kalavela, had a profound impact on the young J.R.R. Tolkien, and became an inspiration for the creation of his legendarium. In early letter to Edith Bratt, Tolkien mentions that he is doing a reworking of one of the stories from the Kalevala (resulting in the manuscript "The Story of Kullervo").[1] In 1955, writing to his friend W.H. Auden, he says that "the beginning of the legendarium [...] was in an attempt to reorganize some of the Kalevala, especially the tale of Kullervo the hapless, into a form of my own".[2]
Source & more tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Kaleva…
Väinämöinen & Gandalf
Tattoos
Kalevala has influenced these bands
Amberian Dawn, Amorphis, Ajattara, CMX, Ensiferum, Kalevala, Kotiteollisuus, Korpiklaani, Mirzadeh, Taivaannaula, Poropetra, Stam1na, Turisas, Tenhi, Viikate, VärttinäKalevala on Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala
Culture on Finland
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_…
Ancient Finnish rune melody
Artworks of Kalevala on DeviantArt
:thumb136781922:
:thumb179784692:Read & share!
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In