![]() ![]() In that realm a man may perhaps count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of a traveler who would report them. The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: All manner of beasts and birds are found there shoreless seas and stars uncounted beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. Tolkien, Fairy was a world parallel to ours, embodying many of the rules and norms and ideas and things of this world, but far more expressive in its wonders, its perils, its beauties, and its enchantments. Fairy itself, far from being supernatural, is the most natural of worlds, and reminds us of the deepest truths of existence.įor J.R.R. ![]() Tolkien proclaimed that fairy-like all mythology-is an expression of our deepest longings and fears. ![]()
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