Editing J. R. R. Tolkien (section)

==== "On Fairy-Stories" ====
{{Main|On Fairy-Stories}}
This essay discusses the fairy-story as a literary form. It was initially written as the 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Tolkien focuses on [[Andrew Lang]]'s work as a folklorist and collector of fairy tales. He disagreed with Lang's broad inclusion, in his [[Lang's Fairy Books|Fairy Book]] collections, of traveller's tales, beast fables, and other types of stories. Tolkien held a narrower perspective, viewing fairy stories as those that took place in [[Fairyland|Faerie]], an enchanted realm, with or without fairies as characters. He viewed them as the natural development of the interaction of human imagination and human language.<ref>{{harvnb|Shippey|2005|pp=56–57}}</ref>