Anna Kilpatrick's Reviews > On Fairy-Stories

An extremely enjoyable read! Makes you want to go read a good fairy story (though Tolkien is quite particular on what qualifies as such). His four categories of Fantasy, Recovery, Escape, and Consolation were very compelling and really helpful in encouraging more openness to reading more varied genres and how to read them, and even write them, well.

“The Gospel contains a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories…
The Birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe (good catastrophe) of Man’s story. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This story begins and ends with joy.”

“The Christian has still to work…but he may now perceive that all his bents and faculties have a purpose, which can be redeemed. So great is the bounty with which he has been treated that he may now, perhaps, fairly dare to guess that in Fantasy he may actually assist in the effoliation and multiple enrichment of creation.”