Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy by Christopher Robichaud

Author:Christopher Robichaud
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118397640
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

Eucatastrophe is not a happy ending brought about by contrivance, for that would violate the fantasy world’s internal consistency. Nor is eucatastrophe the happy ending made possible by sanitizing the fantasy world of danger or evil, for doing so would undermine the value and poignancy of the sudden turn. In fact, Tolkien sees the literary value of fantasy as dependent on not cheating the reader of that value.

It is the mark of a good fairy-story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the “turn” comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art, and having a peculiar quality.10

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