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001 - In Defense of Fantasy

The Prancing Pony Podcast

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I'll Just Bring It Into It, Else

He says that a true fairy story has to have this, if tragedy is the true form of drama, that's its highest function. He calls it the escape from death. This leads him into what he talks about with the consolation of the happy ending. For there is no true end to any fairy tale. It gives me chills every time i read it. And it makes me think of all the ew catastrophes we see in the rings and in the silmeralian even though it isn't a fairytale. So just realize how these are central to Fairy Tales. If you don't have this, they're not stories at all.

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