This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century English author, linguist, and literary critic J.R.R. Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories

It focuses specifically on his views on what actually makes a narrative a fairy story, considering some common but misconceived answers to this question, in order to determine a right answer to it, namely that they are stories that are about or involve, "touches on or uses" the realm of Faërie.

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Broadcast on:

05 Jul 2023