![]() ![]() Morfydd Clark as Galadriel and Lloyd Owen as Elendil in Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power “Because I think that fairy story has its own mode of reflecting ‘truth’, different from allegory, or (sustained) satire, or ‘realism’, and in some ways more powerful,” he continued. It is a ‘fairy-story’, but one written - according to the belief I once expressed in an extended essay ‘On Fairy-stories’ that they are the proper audience - for adults.” In letter 181 to Michael Straight, Tolkien reiterated this idea, “There is no ‘allegory’, moral, political, or contemporary in the work at all. And I will not repeat what I tried to say in my essay, which you read.)” (I am speaking, of course, of our present situation, not of ancient pagan, pre-Christian days. In letter 131 to Milton Waldman, Tolkien offered a different explanation as to what he believed was necessary for myth and fairy-story writing, “Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‘real’ world. Orcs, as depicted in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
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