Recovery, escape and consolation in the secondary worlds of The Lord of the Rings

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-100). === J.R.R. Tolkien's essay "On Fairy-Stories" lays out three essential functions that all good fairy stories should fulfil: recovery, escape, and consolation. To carry out these functions, the fairy story needs to create a believabl...

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Main Author:	Hazekamp, Robyn
Other Authors:	Tiffin, Jessica
Format:	Dissertation
Language:	English
Published:	University of Cape Town 2014
Subjects:	English
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10589

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description	Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-100). === J.R.R. Tolkien's essay "On Fairy-Stories" lays out three essential functions that all good fairy stories should fulfil: recovery, escape, and consolation. To carry out these functions, the fairy story needs to create a believable Secondary World that is separate from the Primary World in which we live. In fact, Tolkien does this on two levels: the Secondary World of Middle-earth, and the inner Secondary World of the Elves.
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Recovery, escape and consolation in the secondary worlds of The Lord of the Rings

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