O que nos fascina nas histórias de fantasia do passado, essencialmente na Idade Média europeia, cheia de cavaleiros e damas, reis e rainhas, mágicos e feiticeiras, castelos, palácios e escola de magia e bruxaria como na série Harry Potter? Qual é a razão para que esses temas tão distantes do mundo contemporâneo dos jovens leitores sejam tão atrativos?
The history of fairy-stories is probably more complex than the physical history of the human race, and as complex as the history of human language. All three things: independent invention, inheritance, and diffusion, have evidently played their part in producing the intricate web of Story. It is now beyond all skill but that of the elves to unravel it. Of these three invention is the most important and fundamental, and so (not surprisingly) also the most mysterious.
