Wonderful reading of an important essay. I hadn't read it in years, so this was a great refresher. A great help for my literature analysis channel. Thank you.
As I listen to Tolkien criticize dramatized fairy stories, I cannot help but wonder what he would have made of the magic of cinema and the dramatization of his works by Peter Jackson.
Good question - that introductory paragraph is included in a number of PDF versions found online. I (producer) have the collection The Monster and the Critics which does not include that paragraph, but the reader likes to have an electronic version to read from when recording, so I sent him this one. coolcalvary.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/on-fairy-stories1.pdf I didn't notice the difference until you pointed it out! I wonder if it comes from one of the earlier editions. Wikipedia says: '"On Fairy-Stories" first appeared in print, with some enhancement, in 1947, in a festschrift volume, Essays Presented to Charles Williams, compiled by C. S. Lewis.' I wonder if this introductory paragraph was part of the "enhancement" in the original publication and was removed in later collections. I also see that the essay was eventually published in a stand-alone "expanded edition" ed. Verlyn Flieger - maybe the PDF reflects that edition, but I really don't know because I only own The Monsters and the Critics.
I have three separate editions where "On Fairy-stories" is printed. Tree and Leaf (1965), The Tolkien Reader (1966), and The Monsters and the Critics (1983). All three of them start the same way ("I propose to speak about fairy-stories..."). In this recording it's not perfectly clear where the official recitation begins, as there is an introduction by one person, and another introduction by the person doing the reading. It seems to start with "To be invited to lecture..." I'm guessing Tolkien rewrote the first paragraph at some point, since what is being recited, although not exactly the same as what's printed in my editions, is very similar and contains some of the same phraseology ("...dungeons for the overbold."). (@@CatholicCulturePod
mystical towards suoernatural, magical towards nature, and the mirror of scorn and pity towards man, the three faces of fairy, the middle is essential, the other two uo to author
Chapters
3:07 Fairy Story
26:26 Origins
55:32 Children
1:19:06 Fantasy
Thank you fam.
I like how we have all this wisdom just hanging out on youtube.
This whole thing changed the way I see the world.
Very soft voice I love it!
Thank you so, so very much for this. I still read fairy tales and folklore myself, so hearing this has been super helpful.
Wonderful reading of an important essay. I hadn't read it in years, so this was a great refresher. A great help for my literature analysis channel. Thank you.
1:37:24 Recovery, Escape, Consolation
2:05:01 Epilogue
Lilliputians are not small. They are perfectly normal sized. Human beings are big.
A Lilliputian posted this
If the Lilluputians are small because there are things bigger than them then everything in this world is small.
You folks been reading Plato's Theaetetus again?@@Atulack
As I listen to Tolkien criticize dramatized fairy stories, I cannot help but wonder what he would have made of the magic of cinema and the dramatization of his works by Peter Jackson.
The opening to my copy of the essay doesn't start like this. What are you reading at the beginning?
Good question - that introductory paragraph is included in a number of PDF versions found online. I (producer) have the collection The Monster and the Critics which does not include that paragraph, but the reader likes to have an electronic version to read from when recording, so I sent him this one. coolcalvary.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/on-fairy-stories1.pdf
I didn't notice the difference until you pointed it out! I wonder if it comes from one of the earlier editions. Wikipedia says: '"On Fairy-Stories" first appeared in print, with some enhancement, in 1947, in a festschrift volume, Essays Presented to Charles Williams, compiled by C. S. Lewis.' I wonder if this introductory paragraph was part of the "enhancement" in the original publication and was removed in later collections. I also see that the essay was eventually published in a stand-alone "expanded edition" ed. Verlyn Flieger - maybe the PDF reflects that edition, but I really don't know because I only own The Monsters and the Critics.
I have three separate editions where "On Fairy-stories" is printed. Tree and Leaf (1965), The Tolkien Reader (1966), and The Monsters and the Critics (1983). All three of them start the same way ("I propose to speak about fairy-stories..."). In this recording it's not perfectly clear where the official recitation begins, as there is an introduction by one person, and another introduction by the person doing the reading. It seems to start with "To be invited to lecture..." I'm guessing Tolkien rewrote the first paragraph at some point, since what is being recited, although not exactly the same as what's printed in my editions, is very similar and contains some of the same phraseology ("...dungeons for the overbold."). (@@CatholicCulturePod
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The adjective
Indeed.
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1:54:24
mystical towards suoernatural, magical towards nature, and the mirror of scorn and pity towards man, the three faces of fairy, the middle is essential, the other two uo to author
He pronounces fairy as ferry, a bit odd to my English ears.
Sounds normal to this Atlantic Canadian