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7 - Legend of Zelda: Mythopoeia, Tolkien, and the Triforce
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The Legend of Zelda can feel like playing Tolkien: home, adventure, and a return that leaves you looking at the primary world differently. What if that is mythopoeia, not nostalgia?
In this Mythic Mind Games conversation, Dr. Andrew Snyder and Joshua Traylor talk with Dr. Anthony Cirilla, co-editor of Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda, about Tolkien's mythmaking, On Fairy-Stories and subcreation, Lewis's Myth Became Fact, and the Triforce as a concrete image of power, wisdom, and courage working together. They defend Zelda's "generic" fairy-story heroics, weigh Ocarina's saturated symbolism against sprawling open worlds, and ask how digital fantasy can train the imagination without replacing real life.
Part two of the Zelda miniseries. Related: ep. 6 The Legend of Zelda https://youtu.be/kuyYT_8nsiM; Fairy-Stories ep. 1 https://youtu.be/lYzzMFDus9U.
Guest: Dr. Anthony Cirilla (College of the Ozarks; co-editor, Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda). With Joshua Traylor.
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https://youtu.be/vU3OBUUitis
The Legend of Zelda can feel like playing Tolkien: home, adventure, and a return that leaves you looking at the primary world differently. What if that is mythopoeia, not nostalgia?
In this Mythic Mind Games conversation, Dr. Andrew Snyder and Joshua Traylor talk with Dr. Anthony Cirilla, co-editor of Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda, about Tolkien's mythmaking, On Fairy-Stories and subcreation, Lewis's Myth Became Fact, and the Triforce as a concrete image of power, wisdom, and courage working together. They defend Zelda's "generic" fairy-story heroics, weigh Ocarina's saturated symbolism against sprawling open worlds, and ask how digital fantasy can train the imagination without replacing real life.
Part two of the Zelda miniseries. Related: ep. 6 The Legend of Zelda https://youtu.be/kuyYT_8nsiM; Fairy-Stories ep. 1 https://youtu.be/lYzzMFDus9U.
Guest: Dr. Anthony Cirilla (College of the Ozarks; co-editor, Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda). With Joshua Traylor.
Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship:
https://mythicmindfellowship.com
Listen to/watch the Mythic Mind podcasts:
- Mythic Mind
- Mythic Mind Games
- Mythic Mind Movies
#MythicMind #MythicMindGames #LegendOfZelda #Zelda #Mythopoeia #Tolkien #FairyStories #Subcreation #Triforce #OcarinaOfTime #AnthonyCirilla #CSLewis #Philosophy