by J.R.R. Tolkien
There has been, in more recent years, a push to explain away fantasists like J.R.R Tolkien or C.S. Lewis as part of an older and more obscure literary movement. To that effect some have even aimed to marginalise their work as merely part of 'genre fiction' and fantasy. Of course, Tolkien is not help...
tolkien is no 1
The Perilous Realm of the title is Faerie Land, but Tolkien has not people it with diaphanous butterfly-winged sprites, but by dangerous and enchanting elves, dragons and giants. The four branches of the book are each different from each other, despite the thematic connection.Farmer Giles of Ham is ...
On Fairy Stories is also in this book at the end of my edition.