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Podcast: Exploring Tolkien
Episode: Happily Ever After isn’t Enough - On Fairy Stories, Part 6
Description: We’re wrapping up Tolkien’s seminal essay this week looking at Consolation–and with that–Tolkien’s well-known term, Eucatastrophe. With so much depth, this essay isn’t easy to consume, and we really hope reading it with us helped you come to understand why Tolkien wrote it and why he believes Fairy Stories are so important!
This week we look at:
Why Consolation/Eucatastrophe is required
What is Lord of the Ring’s chief eucatastrophe?
Is eucatastrophe deus ex machina?
Why Eucatastrophe is glimpse of Truth (with a capital T!)
How George RR Martin drags us into...