Again, from the book
"J.R.R Tolkien, perhaps this century's greatest creator of fairy tales, often faced the charge that fantasy is an 'escapist' way of shifting attention away from the pressures of the 'real world'. His reply was simply:
Everything depends on that from which one is escaping. We view the flight of a deserter and the escape of a prisoner very differently." Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home?"

desiderio domini.
i dearly long to be with my Lord.