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Originally Posted by davem
But this is straying off topic....
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Since when has that stopped you?
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Originally Posted by davem
The question, perhaps, is which did Tolkien set out to do - 'baptise' Faery, or 'baptise' the human imagination?
(Oh, of course, the other question is, did he succeed in whichever he set out to do?)
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I think, the human imagination. How could he do that to Faery? He only was a type of Smith, just like the rest of us, and made beautiful things in his smithy, greatly influenced by Faery.
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Originally Posted by davem
Faery, for me, 'underlies' the world we experience with our physical senses, it is the 'archetype', the perfect 'unfallen' world from which this one devolved.
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That makes it synonymous with Eden for me, but I suppose that's just one of many myths with a once-upon-a-time unfallenness. But your view of Faery seems a tad idealized to me.