OUROBOROS DREAMS

Finishing up the section in which Tolkien discusses the types of stories that he doesn't deem "fairy stories..." There's...

Continuing with Tolkien: In the pages following his remarks on magic and enchantment, Tolkien, having already disagreed with the character...

I read Patricia McKillip’s 1976 “Hed” trilogy over twenty years ago, but my memory was basically favorable, though I didn’t recall est...

My theory that Tolkien regarded human beings as a "supernatural" by virtue of their ability to imitate the deity finds some suppor...

This passage from the Tolkien essay will be familiar to many readers of fantasies: The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and...

I've given a certain amount of thought over the years as to what the particular charms of "otherworldly fantasy" as compared t...

In November 2012 I launched a blog entitled THE FANTASY FANE-- a pun-no-one-would-get, based on the name of an early science fiction fanzine...