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- ItemOpen AccessRecovery, escape and consolation in the secondary worlds of The Lord of the Rings(2008) Hazekamp, Robyn; Tiffin, JessicaJ.R.R. Tolkien's essay "On Fairy-Stories" lays out three essential functions that all good fairy stories should fulfil: recovery, escape, and consolation. To carry out these functions, the fairy story needs to create a believable Secondary World that is separate from the Primary World in which we live. In fact, Tolkien does this on two levels: the Secondary World of Middle-earth, and the inner Secondary World of the Elves.