Footnote #42 - Tolkien’s On Fairy Stories
Following up last week’s feature-length episode on The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003) , the latest Footnote looks at J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal essay “On Fairy Stories” that engages the definitions, origins, and applications of the fairy story; the fairy vs. faerie distinction and questions of magic and imagination; sub-creation and secondary belief in the construction of fantasy’s logically-consistent fictional worlds; and how Tolkien’s defense of fantasy literature can be helpful for the craft of fantasy stories across multiple forms of media. ** Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**