Fantasy Incarnate
The incarnate mind, the tongue, and the tale are in our world coeval. J.R.R Tolkien, ‘On Fairy Stories’, lecture delivered in 1939 On the surface, the meaning of the above quotation appears straightforward: humans have always used language to tell stories to one another. But why, in the expression of this idea, do we […]
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Dec 13, 2015 03:03AM
Can't think how I've missed this piece, Simon, it's a fascinating elucidation staring from that phrase, 'incarnate mind', that I have always unquestioningly read - Tolkien has these little word-bombs that take a long time to explode in ones head!
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