Fairy Tale News New Year's Bumper Edition: From the archives: Articles to read again (or for the first time)

• Fear of fairy tales - The glossy sanitized new versions of fairy tales leave out what matters: the scary parts (Article particularly using Rapunzel in the discussion of the importance of unsanitized of fairy tales and the problem with the prevalence of Princesses)

• The Trouble Clef: Hans Andersen and His Alter Ego - Bringing HCA's Little Mermaid to the stage. Lera Auerbach talks about being commissioned by the Royal Danish Ballet to write a full length ballet based on the story. He (?) talks about Andersen's fairy tales in general, looks closely at the story of The Little Mermaid and talks about how amazingly adaptable HCA's works are for bringing to the stage and screen. Very interesting/thoughtful article.

• The fairy tales and fairy tale artists that influenced Tolkien - Tolkien and the New Art. Gives examples, excerpts and shows illustrations. Very interesting!

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