For a nice dose of a fairy tale quest, I recommend The 13 Clocks by James Thurber. A children's fairy tale in the tradition of three tasks tales, it still has a bit of the flippancy of The Princess Bride. (If you aren't aware of it yet from Neil Gaiman's comments on his blog.)


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While a lot of fairy tales don't have actual fairies in them -- some of them do. And of course there are many tales in which a name is very, very important. Keeping that in mind, I thought it would be fair to point out the Fairy Name Generator. (especially cause I liked my result!)

Your fairy is called Fire Goblinweb
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