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Podcast: Exploring Tolkien
Episode: Movies are NOT Sub-Creation - On Fairy Stories, Part 4
Description: When Tolkien talks about Fantasy, he doesn’t simply mean fiction stories set in sword-and-sorcery worlds. Fantasy is the highest form of sub-creation, the “most nearly pure form”–and the most potent. An art form that is “best left to words, to true literature.”
Michael, Dan, and I discuss this idea of Fantasy as the one form of Art that comes closest to true Enchantment. We look at:
The difference between imagination and fantasy.
The ideal of “Faërian Drama”.
The problem with “modern” sensibilities in Fantasy–and how that ruins true sub-creation.
Why films will never match the power of...