ON FAIRY STORIES

This one week class on Faerie is part of the introductory version of the core curriculum and the original "Skandalon Skole" of the Valanga. It can be accessed at any time online and is held the last week in August, as a sort of angelic orientation. Also offered as a four month class for interested people who want to take it for four credits.

The angelology of Tolkien as laid out in his essay sheds considerable light on Tolkien's views of the intellectual strategy of the Judeo-Christian figure of the devil since the advent of the printing press and universal access to literacy and the bible became possible. According to Tolkien, Angels are critical figures in the history of the Incarnation; and belief in their splendor was sabotaged by stealth.The spirits who had some sort of antipathy toward Christ gradually turned announcing angels into tinkerbells that seemed to have little to do with glory; then relegated them and their message to the realm of fantasy land. in fact there is nothing more true than fantasy if it is accurately represented.

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