He was writing fantasy fiction.
If you want to live in a fantasy world, that's your choice, but try not to be fleeced by the scammers - you won't get much sympathy.
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He was writing fantasy fiction.But the Elves are there (in my tales) to demonstrate the difference. Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations …
― J.R.R. Tolkien
the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic
He was writing fantasy fiction.
Did you never wonder why he put 'truth' is in quotes?
“After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
hint: think in terms of metaphor
Exactly - a good description of metaphor, analogy, parable, etc. In this case, very much 'not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.'
Letter 131
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
Exactly - a good description of metaphor, analogy, parable, etc.
Jacob Marley said:“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard …”
60 percent of Americans claim to have seen ghosts …
As long as we're quoting random lines from fictional characters…
Did I say he was?
Well when your arguments are so random
In my reality it's gone exactly as expected
This conversation has veered from its intended course…
In my reality it's gone exactly as expected…
Skeptics are those best placed to detect the truth.
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