Elfland

My latest piece for the Imaginative Conservative looks at the influence of Chesterton's essay "The Ethics of Elfland" (chapter four of Orthodoxy) on Tolkien's philosophy of myth, as expounded in the latter's famous lecture/essay "On Fairy Stories": The great G.K. Chesterton had a huge impact on my embrace of Christian orthodoxy. It would, in fact, be no exaggeration [...]