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Re: escapism (was re: JIN-ROH and LotR)
<< and Gilhamilton wrote:
> I remember one writer on Tolkien saying that after reading LotR he was
> walking through a forest and the trees about him became, for a while,
> electric and magical again like in his childhood.
Dan:
I think you might be referring to (or the writer you cite might have been
referring to) Tolkien himself, who in his essay "On Fairy Stories" said
the purpose of faerie was not to make the world seem more dull and drab,
but to inject the world with a little magic, so that after reading the
stories, the normal, everyday world seems at least a little more mysterious
and full of potential. >>
Now you mention it, I think it was Tolkien's essay I was referring to. It
was just diluted through the 10 or so years since I read it and then filtered
through the half dozen or so books on Tolkien I've read in the interim... I
think I'll go back and read it and jog my memory. I remember it being a
wonderful essay.
kevin
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