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"Leaf by Niggle"
Short story by J. R. R. Tolkien
English edition of Leaf by Niggle, HarperCollins, 2016
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English/Spanish
Genre(s)
Fantasy short-story
Publication
Published in
Dublin Review
Publication date
January 1945
Chronology
The Hobbit
On Fairy-Stories
"Leaf by Niggle" is a short story written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1938–39[T 1] and first published in the Dublin Review in January 1945. It was reprinted in Tolkien's book Tree and Leaf, and in several later collections. Contrary to Tolkien's claim that he despised allegory in any form, the story is an allegory of Tolkien's own creative process, and, to an extent, of his own life, following the structure of Dante's Purgatorio. It also expresses his philosophy of divine creation and human sub-creation. The story came to him in a dream.
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