Tag: on fairy stories

“Don’t you wish it could all be real” – Tolkien and subcreation; theology and fiction

The lands of Faerie as illustrated by JRR Tolkien in The Shores of Faery

“Don’t you wish it could all be real” – Tolkien and subcreation; theology and fiction

Published September 19, 2021 by Alexander

I was chatting to a friend of mine yesterday, when she asked me a disarmingly childlike, simple question. A question that desired no philosophical or detailed…

Tangled and the eucatastrophe

Published March 11, 2021 by Alexander

I was rewatching one of my favourite films last night – certainly my favourite “classic” Disney film. It’s charming, clever, slapstick, nuanced, emotional…