The Great Reversal: From Fairy-Stories to the Manger in Bethlehem
In this world, form and size matters. In the spiritual one, they do not.
After an intriguing conversation with Shari Suter on Grail Country about Tolkien’s essay On Fairy Stories, fairies and elves no longer seem diminutive to me. Tolkien actually pushes back against the popular idea that fairies are necessarily small in size as they are often depicted in Victorian literature.
When you plunge deep into Faërie—the…
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