Tolkien's 'On Fairy Stories'

How fantasy is a doorway to re-enchanting the real world

Let me thank the reader who put me on to the book Hunting Magic Eels, by Richard Beck. Beck is a professor of psychology at a Christian college. The book is about re-enchantment. It’s very light — I read it in a day — but it has some good insights, and I’m glad I read it. The best thing I got out of it, though, was learning about J.R.R. Tolkien’s essay …