Tolkien points out that our definitions are sorely lacking when we look to the dictionary to define "fairy story" – or, since that term is missing all together, "fairytale." Tolkien laments the negative definitions found in the dictionary to describe a fairytale as something that is not true. He goes on to define it, although a definition is difficult to pin down.

Tolkien explains that the realm of "Faerie" is actually a state of being. It encompasses all manner of the supernatural, as well as the natural world, in addition to mortal humans – when we are enchanted. He describes the fairy story as a "soup" originating in history that has been simmered with imagination.

- Cultural Mythos & Return of the Ethnikos by CE

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