ABSTRACT
On March 8, 1939, J. R. R. Tolkien officially coined the term "subcreation" at his Andrew Lang Lecture, and it was published eight years later in his now-famous essay, "On Fairy-Stories". By "subcreation", he means the ability to create a world within God's Creation. Based on J. R. R. Tolkien's description of what he means by subcreation, this chapter defines subcreation as a creation of an imaginary world that in literature can be accomplished by combining nouns and redistributing adjectives; the imaginary world is a secondary world in relation to the Primary World, also known as the real world we live in; and the imaginary world has the inner consistency of reality. Subcreation can be done not only in literature but in various media forms. In "On Fairy-Stories", J. R. R. Tokien criticizes a variety of views. He was critical toward Victorian Romanticism, Reductionism, and Formalism, Modernism, and Skepticism.
