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In the essay, Tolkien distinguished fairy tales from what he considered separate genres like beast fables and dream stories. Illustration for Helena Nyblom's fairy tale "The Ring" by John Bauer, 1914. The essay "On Fairy-Stories" is an attempt to explain and defend the genre of fairy tales, under the following headings.
Tree and Leaf is a small anthology of works by J. R. R. Tolkien published in 1964 [1] and originally illustrated by Pauline Baynes which consisted of: . a revised version of an essay called "On Fairy-Stories" (originally published in 1947 in Essays Presented to Charles Williams)
Pintosmalto – 1634 Italian literary fairy tale by Giambattista Basile; The Feather of Finist the Falcon – Russian fairy tale; J. R. R. Tolkien's use of this phrase – Walking songs from The Lord of the Rings; Sigurd, the King's Son (Icelandic fairy tale) – Icelandic fairy tale about an animal bridegroom.
From this origin, John Ruskin wrote The King of the Golden River (1851), a fairy tale that included complex levels of characterization and created in the Southwest Wind an irascible but kindly character similar to J.R.R. Tolkien's later Gandalf.
T 3] It first appeared in a book in 1964 alongside "On Fairy-Stories" in Tree and Leaf. [T 4] It has been republished in the collections The Tolkien Reader (1966), [T 5] Poems & Stories (1980), [T 6] A Tolkien Miscellany (2002), [T 7] and Tales from the Perilous Realm (2021). [T 8]
"On Fairy-Stories", the 1939 Andrew Lang lecture at St Andrew's University, is a defence of the fantasy genre. "A Secret Vice" talks about creating imaginary languages, giving background to Tolkien's Quenya and Sindarin. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is a study of the medieval poem of the same name.
Ruth B. Bottigheimer catalogued this and other disparities between the 1810 and 1812 versions of the Grimms' fairy tale collections in her book, Grimms' Bad Girls And Bold Boys: The Moral And Social Vision of the Tales. Of the "Rumplestiltskin" switch, she wrote, "although the motifs remain the same, motivations reverse, and the tale no longer ...
The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey writes that "defeat hangs heavy" in the story, [6] while Tolkien called it "an old man's book", with presage of bereavement. [T 6] Shippey adds that when Tolkien presents images of himself in his writings, as with Niggle, the anti-hero of "Leaf by Niggle" and Smith, there is "a persistent streak of alienation". [7]