Lemminkainen is a character based on Lemminkäinen from the Kalevala,[1][2] who appears in two poems by J.R.R. Tolkien: The New Lemminkainen and Lemminkainen Goeth to the Fords of Oxen.[3]
References
- ↑ The Story of Kullervo, "On 'The Kalevala' or Land of Heroes"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Christina Scull, Wayne G. Hammond (eds.), “8. The New Lemminkainen (1911),” in The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien (HarperCollins, 2024) , pp. 38-48
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Christina Scull, Wayne G. Hammond (eds.), “Introduction,” in The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien (HarperCollins, 2024) , p. xvi