One of Tolkien’s most resonant lines, from On Fairy-Stories, directly addresses the moral and imaginative power of fantasy:
The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous ‘turn’... is not essentially ‘escapist,’ nor ‘fugitive.’ It is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be co…
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