Lord of the Rings fans celebrate as new Tolkien book to be released this month
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New title: The Story of Kullervo by JRR Tolkien is set to be released this month
One of the world's most revered fantasy authors has a new book set to come out later this month - 42 years after his death.
Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit creator JRR Tolkien penned The Story of Kullervo early in his writing career, but fans are finally going to get their hands on it when Harper Collins release it on August 26.
Kullervo, son of Kalervo, is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all Tolkien's characters - 'Hapless Kullervo', as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny.
The book revisits some of Tolkien's favoured fantasy scenes, where Kullervo is brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and who tries three times to kill him when still a boy.
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