Fantasy reflects a fundamental aspect of the human condition — the struggle to overcome hardships.
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"The snobbery of those who look down on fantasy has a long pedigree — so much so that, in 1947, J.R.R. Tolkien felt the need to defend the genre in his work, 'On Fairy-Stories.' For Tolkien, fantasy and fairy stories are not simply stories about fairies. They are stories that take place in a land of fairies. They exist in their own created land, where any number of wondrous things can happen, but they are always treated with the utmost seriousness by the reader. To enter Faërie is not to enter a world of simple make-believe; instead, we perform an act of 'sub-creation,' in which we form a world within our wider 'reality.' - Jonny Thomson
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