If you found The tale of Kullervo interesting, you might want to get to know Kalevala.

The connection between Tolkien's book and Kalevala: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Kullervo

Kalevala: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala

I had already read some of the Kalevala which made the random mentions of Ilmarinen and northern hell a lot easier to understand, but I recommend it. Do you know a good translation?

I don't personally need a translation but one version that I know of that many have enjoyed to read or look at is the "An Illustrated Kalevala" version by Kirsti Mäkinen.

The Greek classics. They were performed as oral tradition originally, so naturally they're designed to be read aloud.

True, but sadly I can't read ancient Greek, so if you have a orally-performative translation, you would have my long-lengthed thanks

I recorded Stephen King's The Dark Tower series for my girlfriend. Reading it aloud made me notice details much better than just reading it had, and performing the characters' parts (ie acting their parts rather than just reading the dialogue) put me in much better touch with who those characters are.

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Paradise list by Milton. The prose is magnificent, the entire thing is in perfect blank verse and rolls off the tongue once you are used to the pattern.

Honestly, aloud is really the only way to read it, it’s too easy to get bogged down with trying to understand every word otherwise. Instead let it wash over you and get the feel for it, and then come back later to try and comprehend the whole thing.

It’s funny that you say that. I find that reading aloud makes me not process the text as much. Maybe I’m concentrating on saying the words and comprehension gets a lower priority. I’ll get the gist of it, but I will miss out on nuance and details.

I cant fully appreciate prose or poetry when it's just in my head, I have to hear it aloud, ideally from someone else reading aloud. For example the first time I read the silmarillion, while I liked the epic stories the prose was more like a hurdle to overcome rather than adding to the experience, but when I listened to the audiobook a few years later it completely changed that. Now the beauty of the language is one of the first things I gush about regarding that book. Although I am ADHD and in my case it makes reading very difficult.

I like to recommend 'Land of Heroes' by Ursula Synge to anyone interested in The Kalevala. Synge re-tells it in English in a style influenced by Tolkien, and it's awesome. And actually we did recite some of it out loud, since you mention it.

I found that it was easier and more pleasant to read the long stream of consciousness sentences in Virginia Woolfs books when read aloud.

Will definitely give it a shot