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Fantasy ¡V Just Another World

A fairy story ¡Valthough it seems straightforward in definition, it is not as simple as it sounds. It is a sophisticated tale of unreal fairies living in a fantasy world, of which the creation requires several important ingredients. In ¡§On Fairy-Stories,¡¨ J. R. R. Tolkien assumes the role of a cook and makes the ¡§Soup¡¨ ¡V a fairy story. To achieve the concept of fantasy, the author creates the Secondary World for readers to enter. The Secondary World is an alternate reality created in the mind that corresponds with the laws made by the creator. Nevertheless, Tolkien underscores the point of following ¡§the desires of body and heart¡¨ in fantastic creation (113). This conveys that the author¡¦s free-will to create a separate world requires him to become a follower under his own world. In The Silmarillion, Tolkien creates a fantasy world called ¡§Arda¡¨ and lets the readers to enter it. Through this fantasy world,......

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