The fairy court in Northumberland was once up the Hartburn from Rothley, they say, until the actions of an over-proud miller offended them and saw them take themselves off up to the area around Dancing Green Hill and the Hurl Stane, near Chillingham, where the white, fairy cattle still roam.

But there's a lot of them up the Henhole too, and an outpost near Elsdon and Otterburn, all of them seeming more related to each other and to the other wild, little people of the moors than they are to the more lordly fairy folk of Eildon and the Borders.

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Are fairy stories an escape from mundane everyday reality? Tolkien says yes, but that doesn't mean that they're just escapism. Here's a Speculative Fiction Studies video looking at his views on escape and its legitimacy

https://youtu.be/lVLHGlh5BM8
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J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories | Escape's Legitimacy | Speculative Fiction Studies

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Here's the next video in the sequence on J.R.R.Tolkien's On Fairy Stories, this one looking at the three "faces" to fairy stories that he distinguishes!
https://youtu.be/vElkS6Bf2So
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J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy Stories | Three Faces of Fairy Stories | Speculative Fiction Studies

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