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Tag: fairy-tales, fantasy

Maurissa Guibord

It’s kind of strange…All these so-called myths and fables. Everyone seems to have the same ones. They cross cultures and continents. Everyone has their own versions of unicorns, witches, even the Fates. Now we know why. Because they’re real.

fairy-tales, fantasy

Rebecca Chastain

Screw fairy tales. My life was way more interesting.

fairy-tales, fantasy

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

fairy-tales, fantasy

Many readers simply can’t stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance … (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance. … In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.

fairy-tales, fantasy

Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.

fairy-tales, fantasy

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

fairy-tales, fantasy

Rebecca Chastain

Screw fairy tales. My life was way more interesting.

fairy-tales, fantasy

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

fairy-tales, fantasy

Many readers simply can’t stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance … (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance. … In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.

fairy-tales, fantasy

Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.

fairy-tales, fantasy

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

fairy-tales, fantasy