In The Great Fairy Rescue, the 'villain' of the film is Dr. Griffiths, an entomologist. But throughout the film, I found myself sympathizing with him
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To be fair, horse-drawn vehicles persisted in London alongside motor cars and electric trolleys through the turn of the century, finally gone for good by 1915. (Nice point of reference here.) The timeline gets even more convoluted figuring in The Little White Bird. After Peter runs away and lives in Kensington Gardens for some time, he finds a banknote in the following manner:
Shelley was a young gentleman and as grown-up as he need ever expect to be. He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up. They are people who despise money except what you need for to-day, and he had all that and five pounds over. So, when he was walking in the Kensington Gardens, he made a paper boat of his bank-note, and sent it sailing on the Serpentine.
P. B. Shelly's first published work was 1810, so that could place Peter's origins maybe even as early as the late 18th century?
Anyway, away from Peter and back to the fairies! Sorry, I'm one of those history-weenies who has a tentative timeframe-headcanon, and man I have been waiting to spring it on someone. XD;
It is worth pointing out though that at the turn of the century and up until the Great War that Spiritualism and Magick were becoming more and more followed and talked about, which in turn may or may not have helped extend fairy life-spans. The power of belief and all.
Ooooh, interesting -- but the question isn't so much when Peter came to Never Land as when Peter and Tink met up. The fact that Wendy made an appearance in the first movie is an indication that Peter and Tink didn't know each other very long before he met up with Wendy.
Hmm. My theory on the belief aspect is that saying "I don't believe in fairies" only applies to your own personal fairy. Otherwise, some jerk could say it a few hundred times and bam, fairy genocide. So for the oldest fairies -- the ones who have apparently been around for over a century -- the human whose laugh they came from went to their grave believing, and thus they can only die if they're killed by a hawk or something (rather than potentially dying of disbelief). Which would be why many of the fairies from the movies(who, as you point out, would come from laughs in an era where the belief was encouraged) are still around in the books (which are supposed to be set in the modern-ish day).
Shelley was a young gentleman and as grown-up as he need ever expect to be. He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up. They are people who despise money except what you need for to-day, and he had all that and five pounds over. So, when he was walking in the Kensington Gardens, he made a paper boat of his bank-note, and sent it sailing on the Serpentine.
P. B. Shelly's first published work was 1810, so that could place Peter's origins maybe even as early as the late 18th century?
Anyway, away from Peter and back to the fairies! Sorry, I'm one of those history-weenies who has a tentative timeframe-headcanon, and man I have been waiting to spring it on someone. XD;
It is worth pointing out though that at the turn of the century and up until the Great War that Spiritualism and Magick were becoming more and more followed and talked about, which in turn may or may not have helped extend fairy life-spans. The power of belief and all.
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Hmm. My theory on the belief aspect is that saying "I don't believe in fairies" only applies to your own personal fairy. Otherwise, some jerk could say it a few hundred times and bam, fairy genocide. So for the oldest fairies -- the ones who have apparently been around for over a century -- the human whose laugh they came from went to their grave believing, and thus they can only die if they're killed by a hawk or something (rather than potentially dying of disbelief). Which would be why many of the fairies from the movies(who, as you point out, would come from laughs in an era where the belief was encouraged) are still around in the books (which are supposed to be set in the modern-ish day).
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