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'If fairy-story [sic] as a kind is worth reading at all it is worthy to be written for and read by adults. . . Then, as a branch of a genuine art, children amy hope to get fairy-stories fit for them to read and yet within their measure. . . [t]hough it may be better for them to read some things, especially fairy stories, that are beyond their measure than short of it. Their books like their clothes should allow for growth, and their at any rate should encourage it.
. . . if written with art, the prime value of fairy-stories will simply be that value which, as literature, they share with other literary forms.' -JRR Tolkien
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[ April 28, 2002: Message edited by: Estel the Descender ]
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