Willow's Reviews > On Fairy-Stories

This scholarly essay (which was actually a speech, if I understand correctly) was a bit hard for me to follow. Like many of the works of C.S. Lewis, this also took a level of concentration I do not currently possess. I struggled in many places to find the meaning and much of it escaped me. I will have to try this again in another season of life because I want to do it justice, and I do believe it will take multiple readings and some studying to really pick up on all that Tolkien is communicating here.

I did find some interesting passages which I am able to appreciate. For instance, it is fascinating to me that fairy tales started out as having been written for adults! "It is parents and guardians who have classified fairy-stories as Juvenilia."

Also intriguing was the part discussing the happy endings inherent in fairy tales [true to the form] and the eucatastrophes that precede them. The epilogue was beautiful. ❤