Their views and descriptions are very different. Terry Pratchett is all negative while L. M. Montgomery is all positive.
Terry Pratchett describes a kind of hell universe
that people are relieved to escape from while L. M. Montgomery describes a
heavenly paradise that produces an unbearable sense of loss in people who have
been banished from it forever.
Terry Pratchett’s Fairyland is an actual
world than can be visited by a few select people while L. M. Montgomery’s,
although not open to most people, is an inner world.
Terry Pratchett’s Fairyland drains real
worlds and has nothing to give while L. M. Montgomery’s world is a wellspring
of wonders that can be brought out into our world and shared.
L. M. Montgomery’s description of Fairyland
leaves out something important that Terry Pratchett highlights.
