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Well, that's exactly the thing Tolkien was "battling" with. I would recommend you, if you haven't done so already, to read Tolkien's essay "On Fairy Stories"; he elaborates on similar topic right at the beginning.
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories
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