On fairy stories by J R R Tolkien Analysis

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Subject Area:Cultural Studies

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Tolkien Introduction Tolkien claims that every child has an experience living in the world where fairies tend to fly everywhere, whether to harm or help them. Tolkien’s story tends to be full of his beliefs on the subject matter as it sounds different from other myths. In his stories he tackles the nature of the universe together with its means of evolvement, he also tackles the nature of man and why the man should remain happy. The nature of the universe according to Tolkien The nature of the universe according to the author of the stories “on fairy stories”, seems to be evolving day in day out. The fairy stories that the author talks about them in these tales seem not to be labelled as “Fairy Tales.

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He suggests that this belief isn’t a mock reality but terming as a secondary reality. That’s why children like faeries. They will believe, trust and without any complication, deeper meanings try to hide the simple open truth. These stories are also adopted by adults too according to Tolkien. He emphasizes on how the secondary world helps to bring an individual out of time here in this mere reality into an everlasting reality (which we all may have experienced when we have had to go about our business after an hour of great fiction). Therefore, for a man to remain joyous, he should avoid escapes into scientific endeavors that may negatively impact to the creation of arsenals of war thus leading to loss of lives and destruction of properties.

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