Dimitra Fimi – Substack – When did the fairies become minuscule? (2) Recent scholarly debates

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Mar 09, 2026

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In my previous piece

I explored what two key scholars

of 20th-century fairylore scholarship,

Minor White Latham and Katharine Briggs,

thought about Shakespeare’s role

in establishing the trope of the minuscule fairy.

I also tied up these ideas with Tolkien’s views

on this question in his essay “On Fairy-stories”.

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