On Tolkien: What did it mean that human beings were capable of such acts of imagination? What role did the relevant outputs (myth, fairy story, fantasy, and others) play in the shaping of human life and cultures? What did any of it have to do with the nature and shape of reality as more widely understood?
From a letter of Tolkien from 1955: I think the so-called fairy story one of the highest forms of literature, and quite erroneously associated with children as such.
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