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{{quote|''[[Our Elves Are Better|Elves are wonderful]]. [[Exact Words|They provoke wonder]].
''Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels.
''Elves are fantastic. They create [[Reality Warper|fantasies]].
''Elves are glamorous. They project [[Glamour]].
''Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
''Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
''The thing about words is that [[From a Certain Point of View|meanings can twist just like a snake]], and if you want to find snakes, look behind words that have changed their meaning.
''No one ever said elves are '''nice'''.
''[[Light Is Not Good|Elves are ]]'''[[Eldritch Abomination|bad]]'''.''|[[Terry Pratchett]], ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]''}}
Modern society has lived with [[Disneyfication|the Disneyfied vision]] of Fairies for so long -- the Fairy Godmothers of "[[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]" and "[[Sleeping Beauty]]", Tinkerbell in ''[[Peter Pan]]'' -- that it seems hard to imagine that some would consider Fairies evil.
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