“language is given to man so that he mightcreate, destroy, and perish, andreturn to the immortal, to the mistressand mother, that he might bear witness to what hehas inherited, learned from her, her the mostdivine, the all-sustaining love.” — An excerpt from “Im Walde” by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) In the essay On Fairy-Stories by J.R.R. …