I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire.
Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.
I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
You should treat a muse like a fairy.
Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.
Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.
Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.