- History and criticism, Fairy tales, English Folk literature, Tales
Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will know. In his essay 'On Fairy-Stories', Tolkien discusses the nature of fairy-tales and fantasy and rescues the genre from those who would relegate it to juvenilia.
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- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 112
- Publisher
- Ediciones Minotauro, Houghton Mifflin, Unwin Hyman
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English, Portuguese, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780395502327
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the
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