![]() ![]() An estimate is difficult, but these unpublished passages perhaps amount to half again as much writing as the essay itself. What is little-known is that when Tolkien expanded the essay in 1943, he wrote many more pages of his views that were originally condensed into or cut from the published version. ‘On Fairy-stories’ comprises about 18,000 words. A bibliography of works cited or consulted by Tolkien during his work on the essay.A history detailing the evolution of the essay.The final published version of the essay.In 2008 it was expanded and commentated, and was published in its own volume. Since then Tree and Leaf has been reprinted several times, and On Fairy-Stories itself has been reprinted in other compilations of Tolkien's works, such as The Tolkien Reader in 1966 and The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays in 1983. On Fairy-Stories began to receive much more attention in 1964, when it was published in Tree and Leaf. ![]() However it received little attention, and was out of print by 1955. The essay first appeared in print, with some enhancement, in 1947, in Essays Presented to Charles Williams, compiled by C. ![]()
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