Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t we consider it his duty to escape? …If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re partisans of liberty, then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!<\/p>\n
– J.R.R. Tolkein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t we consider it his duty to escape? …If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re partisans of liberty, then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[3316],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35307,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/american-movie-critics-andre-sennwald\/","url_meta":{"origin":33990,"position":0},"title":"American Movie Critics: Andre Sennwald","author":"Jandy","date":"July 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"[Ryan McNeil of The Matinee and I are reading through the American Movie Critics anthology and discussing each chapter as we go, crossposting on each of our blogs.] After a few months' hiatus while we did...other stuff...we're back and chomping the bit to talk about Andre Sennwald, a daily reviewer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "American Movie Critics"","block_context":{"text":"American Movie Critics","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/american-movie-critics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/amc-1935-Becky-Sharp-poster.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":33174,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/the-story-of-film-on-tcm-chapter-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":33990,"position":1},"title":"The Story of Film on TCM: Chapter 4","author":"Jandy","date":"September 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a common understanding among silent film fans that something beautiful and inherently cinematic was lost when sound took over at the end of the 1920s. 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