Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda | Literature

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The Legend of Zelda series is one of the most popular and recognizable examples in videogames of what Tolkien referred to as mythopoeia or myth-making. In his essay On Fairy Stories and a short poem entitled Mythopoeia Tolkien makes the case that the fairy tale aesthetic is simply a more intimate version of the same principle underlying the great myths: the human desire to make meaning out of the world. By using mythopoeia as a touchstone concept the essays in this volume explore how The Legend of Zelda series turns the avatar through which the player interacts with the in-game world into a player-character symbiote wherein the individual both enacts and observes the process of integrating …