>>96020883
LoTR is definitely a better story than Kalevala, because it is a novel. Kalevala is more a collection of traditional poems about folkloric heroes of old, which were then knit together, edited and even invented by the book's author to form a somewhat coherent story (Joukahainen didn't originally have a sister, that was Lönnroot's invention). It's definitely an emotional legend and a world classic, but it's a poetic tale first and a coherent story second, not a fantasy novel. Many characters come and go with little relation to one another, there are multiple side-stories outside the main plot about Sampo, and a lot of things happen that make very little sense in modern sense. Even the book itself just kinda ends due to characters only introduced for the ending, not because of what happened in the main plot. But that is the point of the book, because it's a collection of myths forged into an epic.