...passage deals explicitly with words and the power of words and recalls his statement, cited above, that "the incarnate mind, the tongue, and the tale are...other things (and finding it fair to look upon), but sees that it is green as well as being grass. But how powerful, how stimulating to the very faculty...

...order that we do not invent so much as discover. As Tolkien says in his essay "On Faerie Stories," "The incarnate mind, the tongue, and the tale are in our world coeval" (MC, 122). They emerge simultaneously, so that man the speaker is already man the storyteller. Tolkien...

...Both presuppose an inventive mind, and it is the nature of the inventive mind that concerns Tolkien: The incarnate mind, the tongue, and the tale are in...only green-grass, discriminating it from other things but sees that it is green as well as being grass. But how powerful, how stimulating to the very faculty...

...makes possible the invention of the adjective, as Tolkien explains in his essay "On Fairy-Stories": The human mind, endowed with the powers of generalization...other things (and finding it fair to look upon), but sees that it is green as well as being grass. But how powerful, how stimulating to the very faculty...

...new stem but rather an organic and self-consistent whole with its own inner consistency of reality. "The incarnate mind, the tongue, and the tale are in our world coeval," he declared (50). Language, story, and human imagination are inborn faculties, innate and natural to...

...good, saying it twice is better, and Tolkien rephrases the proposition a few pages later, saying that "the incarnate mind, the tongue, and the tale are in our world coeval."18 But showing is always better than mere saying, and Tolkien gives his best illustration of...