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J.R.R. Tolkien _ Tolkien on Fairy-stories
Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom.
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J.R.R. Tolkien _ Tolkien on Fairy-stories