What Is The Purpose Of Tolkien's On Fairy Story

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Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories” talks a lot about what makes fantasy, fantasy. He talks about three concepts that all fantasy must have: recovery, consolation, and escapism. He states that “recovery is a regaining of a clear view” (On Fairy Stories 57). This clear view may be of something that we have lost from our everyday lives. The purpose of fantasy to Tolkien is to gain something from the reading in our never ending familiar days. We are able to make a relation to reality through the analysis of recovery, consolation, and escapism in fantasy. Tolkien says in his essay that “we need to clean our windows; so that the things seen clearly may be freed from the drab blur of triteness or familiarity” (57). Recovery is something that frees us from
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