Great idea, Rhud! Rosa, if you decide to go that way, Tolkien's own essay "On Faerie Stories" is must-reading, in which he describes the PURPOSE for fairie story as being "escape to (oh shoot I forget the right word - something like) recapturing to consolation". Escape is from the dry existence we find ourselves in, recapturing (NOT the right word but my book is loaned out and not handy) is about finding all over again a sense of wonder, and consolation is about bringing back that sense of wonder from the faerie story and seeing that our own existence actually does reflect a piece of it. Like Rhud said, take it or leave it, but it's a good one.
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