Kendra Burnett
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I am a Communications Major with a love for music, writing, literature, and Jesus!
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'The Hobbit'
Fairy Tales, the beginnings of wonderment. Why did they begin? Will they end? All questions are unknown. Children are raised on such fantastical stories. They weave into their hearts and minds. Epic heroics and tales of magic fly off of the worded page. There is a catch to all of this. Not all fairy tales, are fairy stories. Not just the ones that have the magical beings classes as fairies are fairy tales. There are several criteria that must first be thought of. If you dream of a fairy realm, that dream story is not a fairy tale. Talking animals with no apparent cause as to how, again, are not a fairy story. Many of these are found in books that are labeled “fairy tales,” but their content was not taken into consideration. The technicality was not thought out. Why label things as fairy tales when they are not fairy tales? J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a marvelous essay, On Fairy Stories, in which he studies the idea of what actually qualifies as a fairy tale. In accordance to the essay, fairy tales are only “fairy tales” if they take place in the realm of Faerie. Tolkien’s book, The Hobbit, does indeed take place in the fantastical realm. It is a fairy tale.
By Kendra Burnett6 years ago in Geeks