Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.

We are in this fairyland on sufferance; it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision of the world.

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.