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"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"
- J.R.R. Tolkien
You guys can quit being pretentious now.

>> No.13934612

>>13934448
I agree with that

>> No.13934640

>>13934448
Right, yeah, sure. But consider--Tolkein was a linguist for most of the time. It's one thing to escape on a nice little jaunt, or ride a passing lark for an afternoon. It's something else entirely, however, to make for yourself a home in the fantasy. To live in the escape is not really an escape. So yes, certainly, go spend some time in the clouds, but what kind of man would try and live there?

>> No.13934669

>>13934640
nigga how you finna live in a cloud

>> No.13934677

>>13934669
Exactly

>> No.13934690
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>>13934669
youll cowards don't even ride clouds

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13934701

>"Not long ago-incredible though it may seem-I heard a clerk of Oxford declare that he 'welcomed' the proximity of mass-production robot factories, and the roar of self-obstructive traffic, because it brought his university into 'contact with real life.' He may have meant that the way men were living and working in the twentieth century was increasing in barbarity at an alarming rate, and that the loud demonstration of this in the streets of Oxford might serve as a warning that it is not possible to preserve for long an oasis of sanity in a desert of unreason by mere fences, without actual offensive action (practical and intellectual). I fear he did not. In any case the expression 'real life' in this context seems to fall short of academic standards. The notion that motor-cars are more 'alive' than, say, centaurs or dragons is curious; that they are more 'real' than, say, horses is pathetically absurd. How real, how startlingly alive is a factory chimney compared with an elm tree: poor obsolete thing, insubstantial dream of an escapist!"

>> No.13934707

>>13934448
>steals Finish myths

>> No.13934989

>>13934448
Based.

>> No.13935009

>>13934701
I'm starting to think Tolkien was one of the last based Englishmen

>> No.13935029

He stole from the Finns.

>> No.13935035

>>13934701
Tolkien's letters are infinitely more interesting than his fiction desu

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>>13934701
>actual offensive action (practical

>> No.13936293

>>13935009
He was indeed.

>> No.13936661

>>13934701
HOW BASED CAN ONE MAN POSSIBLY BE?!?

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>>13934448
>>13934701
absolutely based and Tolkienpilled

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>>13934448

>> No.13937876

>>13934701
Why does his fiction drive me away if his confessions are so comfy?

>> No.13939653

>>13935029
*improved

>> No.13940065

>>13934701
source?

>> No.13940645
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13940645

>>13940065

I think it's from his 'On Fairy-Stories' essay.

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>>13934448
Totally false. The main function of fairy-tales is to impart moral wisdom and pass on volk traditions.

>> No.13941538

>>13940661
The only thing gayer than the way fags on twitter use "folx" is the way fags on here use "volk"

>> No.13941550

>>13940661
That arm looks diseased.

>> No.13941624

>>13941550

It's a photoshop

>> No.13941836

>>13934640
post life achievements

>> No.13941844

>>13934701
Boomers on suicide watch

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13942027

>>13937858
RIP

>> No.13942035

>>13934448
>Harry potter is good
trad cath genius!

>> No.13943150

>>13934448
true. too true.

>> No.13943478

>>13940645
thanks

>> No.13943941

>>13943478

You can find this essay in a nice little book called Tree and Leaf.