fn51 Preface to the Violet Fairy Book.

  fn52 See Note D at end (See here)

  fn53 This is, naturally, often enough what children mean when they ask: ‘Is it true?’ They mean: ‘I like this, but is it contemporary? Am I safe in my bed?’ The answer: ‘There is certainly no dragon in England today’, is all that they want to hear.

  fn54 Preface to the Lilac Fairy Book.

  fn55 That is: which commands or induces Secondary Belief.

  fn56 This is not true of all dreams. In some Fantasy seems to take a part. But this is exceptional. Fantasy is a rational not an irrational activity.

  fn57 See Note E at end (See here)

  fn58 See Note F at end (See here)

  fn59 Christopher Dawson, Progress and Religion, pp. 58, 59. Later he adds: ‘The full Victorian panoply of top-hat and frock-coat undoubtedly expressed something essential in the nineteenth-century culture, and hence it has with that culture spread all over the world, as no fashion of clothing has ever done before. It is possible that our descendants will recognise in it a kind of grim Assyrian beauty, fit emblem of the ruthless and great age that created it; but however that may be, it misses the direct and inevitable beauty that all clothing should have, because like its parent culture it was out of touch with the life of nature and of human nature as well.’

  fn60 See Note G at end (See here)

  fn61 Or group of similar stories.

  fn62 The Queen who sought drink from a certain Well and the Lorgann (Campbell, xxiii); Der Froschkonig; The Maid and the Frog.

  fn63 See Note H at end (See here)

  fn64 This is characteristic of Lang’s wavering balance. On the surface the story is a follower of the ‘courtly’ French conte with a satirical twist, and of Thackeray’s Rose and the Ring in particular – a kind which being superficial, even frivolous, by nature, does not produce or aim at producing anything so profound; but underneath lies the deeper spirit of the romantic Lang.

  fn65 Of the kind which Lang called ‘traditional’, and really preferred.

  fn66 The Black Bull of Norroway.

  fn67 For all details may not be ‘true’: it is seldom that the ‘inspiration’ is so strong and lasting that it leavens all the lump, and does not leave much that is mere uninspired ‘invention’.

  fn68 The Art is here in the story itself rather than in the telling; for the Author of the story was not the evangelists.

  Works by J.R.R. Tolkien

  THE HOBBIT

  LEAF BY NIGGLE

  ON FAIRY-STORIES

  FARMER GILES OF HAM

  THE HOMECOMING OF BEORHTNOTH

  THE LORD OF THE RINGS

  THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL

  THE ROAD GOES EVER ON (WITH DONALD SWANN)

  SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

  Works published posthumously

  SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL AND SIR ORFEO*

  THE FATHER CHRISTMAS LETTERS

  THE SILMARILLION*

  PICTURES BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN*

  UNFINISHED TALES*

  THE LETTERS OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN*

  FINN AND HENGEST

  MR BLISS

  THE MONSTERS AND THE CRITICS & OTHER ESSAYS*

  ROVERANDOM

  THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN*

  THE LEGEND OF SIGURD AND GUDRÚN*

  THE FALL OF ARTHUR*

  The History of Middle-earth – by Christopher Tolkien

  I THE BOOK OF LOST TALES, PART ONE

  II THE BOOK OF LOST TALES, PART TWO

  III THE LAYS OF BELERIAND

  IV THE SHAPING OF MIDDLE-EARTH

  V THE LOST ROAD AND OTHER WRITINGS

  VI THE RETURN OF THE SHADOW

  VII THE TREASON OF ISENGARD

  VIII THE WAR OF THE RING

  IX SAURON DEFEATED

  X MORGOTH’S RING

  XI THE WAR OF THE JEWELS

  XII THE PEOPLES OF MIDDLE-EARTH

  * Edited by Christopher Tolkien

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