1 - Video Games as Fairy-Stories: Tolkien and Subcreation
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Can video games be more than empty amusement? Tolkien's On Fairy-Stories suggests they can: as secondary worlds of subcreation where escape, recovery, and a return to the primary world are possible.
In this opening episode of Mythic Mind Games, Dr. Andrew Snyder introduces the show's manifesto. Drawing on Tolkien's account of fantasy as subcreation (not mere make-believe), he argues that rightly ordered games can participate in the perilous realm of fairy-story…
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