Suspension of Disbelief and its Importance: Literary as Low-Art & Faërie-Stories as High-Art - Tolkien's Faerie Stories Part 6
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On Substack, of late there’s been a recent fad to criticize Tolkien and his fans, and to hold up Literary Fiction (for some reason when arguably Literary Fiction has never been particularly literary, proper fiction or even remotely interesting if you caught the joke here, you get a cookie). Claiming his works not to be l…