To love, or not to love fantasy

[greyhavener]

I don't know why everyone likes fantasy, I think I know why I like it. I sometimes find in fantasy a physical construct for an interior journey. The twenty-first century is in some ways a graceless and selfish age. In Tolkien, Lewis, L'Engle and some other fantasy writers I find something noble and powerful and good. There is often in fantasy not only the head-on battle against evil forces, but a link between being noble and defeating evil. This encourages me to manifest a nobleness into daily life, perhaps rendering a random act of kindness into something that shoots holes into the darkness.