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#1 Introduction
requirements: 1) knowledge of literature history(Tolkien himself a literature critic, influenced by related knowledge) 2) for fantasies, worldbuilding > construct of characters
Bad guys seem to share a common desire for immorality (thus more passionate about life:) . A “good” bad guy should at least possess a complete ideology, no matter how distorted it is.
Root of fantasy literature:
- Medieval: Arthurian myths, supernatural powers like hagiography,
- Romanticism: to reject industrialism & rationalism, to celebrate nature, imagination. early fantasy pioneers
- Gothic sublimes: fear and awe, terror and ecstasy
Inklings
fantasy: secondary world
#2 Mythology of Power
Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world.
elf: escape from deathlessness
- 作者:XiaoTianyao
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