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1984

Good and evil in fantasy

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Full-Text Articles in Children's and Young Adult Literature

The Evocation Of Good In Tolkien, Peter Lowentrout Jan 1984

The Evocation Of Good In Tolkien, Peter Lowentrout

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Counters criticism of fantasy as morally negligible or as leading to morbid escapism; instead applies Tolkien’s theory of eucatastrophe and defends the “clarity and vigor” of his vision of good in his fantasy.