All his pocket money went to ordering books by post, and he began to take interest in other genres: Poetry and verse; romantic writings which his parents hadn’t had much taste for, and works concerned with the land of Faery. This is not to say Lewis developed an interest in fairies as we think of them today; rather, there was and is, in the more Celtic-influenced areas, a lasting lore about another realm which paralleled that of visible Britain. Faery and its inhabitants were neither inherently good, nor bad; they could be both tempting, beneficial, and cruel.
