But if a waking writer tells you that his tale is only a thing imagined in his sleep, he cheats deliberately the primal desire at the heart of Faërie: the realization, independent of the conceiving mind, of imagined wonder.
— “On Fairy-Stories”, by J. R. R. Tolkien
Faërie itself may perhaps most nearly be translated by Magic - but it is magic of peculiar mood and power, at the furthest pole from the vulgar devices of the laborious, scientific, magician.
— “On Fairy-Stories” by J. R. R. Tolkien
