Lost Lore Library

Lost Lore Library

English gentleman, married to an American beauty, enjoyer of fantastical stories, dabbler in fictional prose, delver of dungeons, and slayer of dragons.

Here I collect my thoughts on Fantasy in all its myriad forms, from literature, to the table top, to the virtual realm and beyond.

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which “Escape” is now so often used: a tone for which the uses of the word outside literary criticism give no warrant at all. In what the misusers are fond of calling Real Life, Escape is evidently as a rule very practical, and may even be heroic.“

~ Escape in: On Fairy-Stories, J.R.R. Tolkien.