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Phantastes a faerie romance5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() some of MacDonald's descriptions of wandering through the Faerie wood sound just like Tolkien describing the animated Old Forest or timeless Lothlorien wherein lived Bombadil and Galadriel. I can certainly see MacDonald's influence in Lewis but, moreso, in Tolkien. And so, while writing, it seemed to me that I had." (from Chapter XII) I'll let MacDonald himself convey this: "But see the power of this book, that, while recounting what I can recall of its contents, I write as if myself had visited the far-off planet, learned its ways, and apprearances, and conversed with its men and women. rich descriptions and wonderful ideas about realms of elves and fairies and goblins and Otherworld entities fill this book. No storytelling here, just tale after tale, anecdote after anecdote of adventures, great and small of a lone traveler in Faerie. ![]()
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