Megan Farve’s Reviews > Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth > Status Update

"A stone can endure, it can change, it can harm, it can heal. It can make you rich, it can make you poor, it can become an enemy, a friend, and a teacher. It can carry your memories and your dreams. It can build empires and bury cities. It can reveal the history of the universe… It can change the course of nature. It can change its own nature. It can empty the world of time."

“International folklore contains countless tales in which a child or adult slips through an imaginary door and passes hours, days, or years in another world… ‘Between every two pines is a door leading to a new life,” wrote John Muir in the 189s.”

“Fantasy allows us to see the world’s wonders again, to ‘look at green again, and be startled anew (but not blinded) by blue,’ Tolkien wrote. It lets us ‘clean our windows; so that the things seen clearly may be freed from the drab blue of triteness or familiarity-from possessiveness.’”