Amongst other work I am trying to turn one of the stories-which is really a very great story and most tragic-into a short story somewhat on the lines of Morris' romances with chunks of poetry in between" (Letters 7). In 1914, he wrote the following to his fiancé Edith Bratt: "Had an interesting talk with that quaint man Earp I have told you of and introduced him (to his great delight) to the `Kalevala,' the Finnish ballads. Anyone who has read his collected letters knows this. Olkien's fascination with the Finnish national epic, Kalevala, created by nineteenth-century physician and folklorist Elias Lönnrot, is well recognized. Identifying England's Lonnrot Identifying England's Lonnrot
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