Leaf by Niggle

Few authors in history have mastered the art of intertwining vivid imagination, profound meaning, and mythical legend together as the great J.R.R. Tolkien. He is doubtless highly ranked among the most creative and well-beloved authors of all time. One of his lesser-known works is ‘Leaf by Niggle’. While the book is quite short and in composed in a thoroughly different style than the 'Lord of the Rings', I really enjoyed it. I believe the work offers a glimpse into what Tolkien modestly thought of himself and his labors as well as being a highly allegorical work on the Catholic doctrine of purgatory, which is paradoxical because Tolkien professed open hostility to allegory in fiction. If my theory is correct, it only goes to show that sometimes persons may resemble what they most criticize.

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