Truth in Tragedy by AdmirableMonster  

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Summary:

A short and very personal essay that is a mix of defense-of-genre-fiction and processing my relationship with my dad.  Not intended to tell anyone else how to feel about the fiction they consume, just trying to sort myself out.

Major Characters: Eöl, Denethor (Steward of Gondor)

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Genre: Experimental, Nonfiction/Meta

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Rating: Teens

Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 403
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Oh Azh, this was powerful. Thank you for sharing it with us!

The position that genre fiction is somehow lesser has long baffled me, when it has been the vehicle for such profound insight into human experience. You are right: these are not little stories! They mean so much. They are deep and important. I think your short essay demonstrates this well, as it grapples to understand complexity through the lens of these two characters. 

I feel for you. 

And what you say resonates.

I am not sure, sometimes, whether it is realism itself or something about a wide-spread attitude to reality, but it seems that there is something that wants to cut our tragedies down to size and narratives like Tolkien's help us to resist that. If that makes sense.