Fantasy
A detailed Summary of Fantasy
Fantasy is the faculty of inventing images, especially extravagant or visionary ones. Fantasy is a genre of imaginative fiction involving fantastic stories; often in a magical pseudo-historical setting as seen is J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Webster's Millennium 2001 International Encyclopedia).
"Fantasy is usually employed to designate a conscious breaking free from reality.
The term is applied to a work that takes place in a non-existent and fictitious world"
(Flint Thrall William. "The Handbook to Literature)" such as fairyland, or concerns
incredible and imaginary characters such as dwarves, giants, and other non-realistic
"They are (or were) a little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves. Hobbits have no beards. There is no little magic
Fantasy may have a dream like logicality and episodic structure or it makes use of many Nordic myths. "Both kind of fantasy are open to Allegorical, or symbolic interpretation" as seen in Lin Carter's, Imaginary World (1973). (Tolkien p.27)
The trees like torches blazed with light."
The fire was red, in flaming spread;
The winds were moaning in the night.
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