J. R. R. Tolkien

English author, Oxford philologist, and creator of Middle-earth who developed a sophisticated theory of mythopoeia — the human sub-creative impulse — arguing that myth-making is humanity's highest creative act as creatures made in the image of a Creator.

Subcreation: the human creative impulse is a reflection of our being made in the image of a Creator; creating secondary worlds with their own internal consistency is the highest human art. On Fairy-Stories: eucatastrophe — the sudden joyous turn — is the defining element of the fairy story and an analogy of the Resurrection.