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sub-creˈation
[sub- 5.]
J. R. R. Tolkien's word for the process of inventing an imaginary or secondary world, different from the primary world but internally consistent.
1947J. R. R. Tolkien in Essays presented to Charles Williams 51 This aspect of ‘mythology’—sub-creation, rather than either representation or symbolic interpretation of the beauties and terrors of the world—is, I think, too little considered. 1974R. Helms Tolkien's World vi. 123 He needed to tell himself..that the cosmos is friendly to sub-creation, because it echoes its own chief and most joyous activity.
Also sub-creˈator, one who engages in sub-creation.
1947J. R. R. Tolkien in Essays presented to Charles Williams 51 In such ‘fantasy’, as it is called, new form is made; Faërie begins; Man becomes a sub-creator. 1972P. H. Kocher Master of Middle-Earth (1973) vii. 201 He..is lifted up to live above himself, as is the sub-creator of secondary worlds of fantasy at the height of his inspiration. |