Faerie

Faerie is the world that isn't, the place that is beyond. One does not get to faerie by walking there, nor by any active attempt. Usually, when one arrives in that other world, they are not expecting it and in now way are trying to get there. They are just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The passage to faerie is generally found at the boundries of this world, where the fabric of existences is weaker. These are places like the shore, a mountain top, or crossroads, and times such as twilight and Beltain, the changing of spring to summer.

The concept of Faerie, however, is very broad. Those of you in the Shakespeare class have seen it the way he presents it, the world literally occupied with faeries, and one where magic works. The impossible is possible, and those who return are forever changed. J.R.R. Tolkien had a very different presentation of Faerie in The Lord of the Rings. There it was a place of elves, a land where the races live without dying, from whence no traveler returns, but it is a place very much of this world, but seperated forever.

I will talk more about Faerie when I have more time. I just wanted to introduce all of you to it today,