“Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or
even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor
obscure the perception of, scientific verity. On the contrary. The
keener and the clearer is the reason, the better fantasy will it make.
If men were ever in a state in which they did not want to know or could
not perceive truth (facts or evidence), then Fantasy would languish
until they were cured. If they ever get into that state (it would not
seem at all impossible), Fantasy will perish, and become Morbid
Delusion.
For creative Fantasy is founded upon the hard
recognition that things are so in the world as it appears under the sun;
on a recognition of fact, but not a slavery to it. So upon logic was
founded the nonsense that displays itself in the tales and rhymes of
Lewis Carroll. If men really could not distinguish between frogs and
men, fairy-stories about frog-kings would not have arisen.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
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