fables

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It’s about good versus evil, gods versus monsters — the fables we’ve been telling since the beginning of time, and why they will be with us until the end.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

Interlaced with the prosaic reflections are a series of fables involving inhabitants from the present and past.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

"The great thing about these movies is that they are like fables," Byron Howard, one of the two directors, told AFP in Los Angeles.

From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025

Yet the bench survives, in the spirit of Gothic fables and improbable Hollywood endings everywhere.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025

‘Do you know why, Aragorn? What are the fables of the forest that Boromir had heard?’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien