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• W289308685 abstract "IN HIS ESSAY On Fairy-Stories, Tolkien identified himself as one of Lang's intended audience (39)--he was born 1892, same year as Green Fairy Book, third Lang's series of 12 anthologies of fairy tales. In part, this reference to Lang was not much more than a courtesy, for essay originated as Andrew Lang Lecture. (It was given at University of Saint Andrews March 1939, when he had already begun work on Lord of Rings.) Tolkien disliked much Lang's work, and was by no means a follower of Lang, especially 1939, when he was trying to write Lord of Rings as a story for adults, and so particularly resented assumption that fairy tales were necessarily children's literature. But part reference was a genuine tribute, not just a courtesy, for although Tolkien might rebel against much of what he found Lang, he also found much to admire and use. Being one of Green children was an important part of his growth as a writer. His use of Lang's anthologies On Fairy-Stories was thorough-going, citing not only Lang's Green preface, but also Blue, Violet, and Lilac prefaces, and discussing some detail Lang's choice of contents for Blue and Lilac volumes; he also commented on Chronicles of Pantouflia, two of Lang's own fairy tales. Lang was thus for Tolkien both an important example to follow--and to defy. He blamed Lang for not taking his own interest fairy tales seriously, and for feeling compelled to apologize for it, as something not appropriate for modern adults to like, except as a matter of scholarship, and as something not to be taken seriously, but available to modern writers only as a vehicle for wit and satire (as stories of Pantouflia). For Tolkien, satiric side of Lang's Pantouflia stories--and of French (1) models Lang drew on--was detrimental. He admired joyous moment Prince Prigio when dead knights come to life, but complained that the main bulk of story [...] is general more frivolous, having half-mocking smile of courtly, sophisticated Conte [tale] (On Fairy-Stories [OFS] 69). And it was these Contes that dominated Lang's first color collections and remained a large proportion of their contents throughout series. French fairy tales that Lang chose were, at first, not only a large proportion of total, but were largely chosen from literary fairy tales (2) of eighteenth century, not from folk tales. These literary fairy tales did not try to record folktales directly (as Grimm Brothers tried to do early nineteenth century), nor did they take emotions that could be roused by a wonder tale seriously, as Romantics of early nineteenth century did (and as their descendants did--such writers as George MacDonald, Oscar Wilde, or Lang himself some moods--and as Tolkien intended to do). Rather, they took fairy tales as a satiric form, well adapted to social criticism and instruction. This emphasis, although little to Tolkien's taste, was popular its time, and many of stories that resulted have remained popular ever since. Translations and re-tellings keep coming out of fairy tales of Charles Perrault (e.g., Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood (3)), Mme. D'Aulnoy (e.g., The White Cat), Mme. de Beaumont or Mme. de Villeneuve (who both wrote versions of Beauty and Beast). Tolkien--perhaps a little grudgingly--said that it was a just choice in some ways (OFS 11) for Lang to have selected so many French fairy tales for Blue Fairy Book (the first of color collections). They did not quite make up a majority of contents, but they had a plurality. Of 37 stories, 15 were French, including all French authors and stories mentioned above. There were also six Grimms, four Scandinavian tales, three from Arabian Nights, and one Arabian story recorded by a modern collector, three English, two Scottish, two with no sources mentioned, and one Greek myth, story of Perseus, only story book retold by Lang himself. …" @default.
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