How to Escape Reality After Reading the Lord of the Rings

The whole point of myth is to plunge you into reality. Tolkien says in his essay on fairy stories that scientific truth is the friend, not the enemy of fantasy. If you don't understand what a prince is and what a frog is, you can't write a story about a frog who changes into a prince. How many friends understood how important the Blessed Virgin Mary was? She was probably utterly ordinary, like Mother Teresa,. Like Dorothy Day, two saints that I personally met. And I was impressed by how extraordinarily ordinary both were. That's grandma. Wow.