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001 - In Defense of Fantasy

The Prancing Pony Podcast

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I Wish I Could Live in Theshire

Tolken says that fairy stories were plainly not primarily concerned with possibility, but with desirability. If they awaken desire, satisfying it, while often wetting it unbearably, they succeeded. You see all the time, people ask questions about the blue wizards or other things where tolken only gave us a little tinya and they want more because they're hungry. So much fantasy that you read, you know, modern popular fantasy lacks that depth. Yno, you scratch the surface and there's nothing there.

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