Ben Domenech

And you can believe that that exists in that world.

Yeah.

And then that's, of course, absolutely inextricably tied with conveying those truths.

So secondary belief in secondary world, it's essentially the same as primary belief in our own world.

It's why Tolkien expresses the challenge about adaptations.

Because he's talking about you're projecting this onto a screen or onto a stage.

You're asking for the reader or the viewer in this case to have a tertiary belief.

Right.

And the problem there is that once that spell is broken, they're out of the secondary world and back into the primary world.

Yeah, because you're not creating that world in your imagination as a reader anymore.

No, you're creating a vision of it.

You're observing somebody else's idea of it.

And that can be good.

That can be great.

But when it fails, it takes you right back out to the primary.

Yeah.

And it's basically a secondary world within the secondary world.

And it's just much, much harder to sustain.

He even says that to make such a thing may not be impossible.

I've never seen it done with success.