Innumerable Stars

(written by Zhie)

Summary Do you like to write fanfiction? Yeah, I bet you do.

Know who else did?

Tolkien. Tolkien fanboyed on The Kalevala so hard when he read it in 1911, he wrote The Story of Kullervo.

This fanfic has everything you would expect from Tolkien. An evil magician, orphans, kidnapping, twins, a helpful dog with a terrible fate, revenge themes, lots of dead bodies, and of course, a talking sword.

Why should I check out this canon? If you want to go two degrees of Kalevala and write some darkfic, this is the story for you.

It's about 35 pages long minus the intro and notes by Verlyn Flieger, so even if you just read the story and don't actually write anything…

…at least it's not that long, and you'll leave thinking 'wow, maybe Turin didn't have it quite so bad'.

Where can I get this? At the bookstore or library of your choice. There is also a copy available to borrow on the Internet Archive.

What fanworks already exist? The only thing this fanfic doesn't have is many other fanfics about this fanfic. There's one on AO3. One. The ink on the fandom tag is still wet and it's sitting in Uncategorized Fandoms. Won't you consider writing some Kullervo fic so that this AO3 tag can find it's forever home on the category page?