The Gospel contains a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which
embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. They contain many
marvels—peculiarly artistic, beautiful, and moving: ‘mythical’ in their
perfect, self-contained significance; and among the marvels is the
greatest and most complete conceivable eucatastrophe. But this story has
entered History and the primary world; the desire and aspiration of
sub-creation has been raised to the fulfillment of Creation. The Birth
of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Man’s history. The Resurrection is the
eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. . . . To reject it leads
either to sadness or to wrath.
Tolkien, “On Fairy-Stories,” 155-56
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