In fact, it is because he wrote his stories to stimulate literary pleasure that most of them have to be appreciated for what they are: fascinating tales. If Tolkien were among us today he would probably tell us: “you should not talk so much about my stories but you should rather enjoy them for their own sake”. Nobody really knows the “meaning” of Leaf, by Niggle there can only ever be interpretations of the text. The title of my paper, The “meaning” of Leaf, by Niggle, may seem a bit pretentious. Publié dans Franck Weinreich et Margaret Hiley (eds) Tolkien’s shorter works, Zurich, Walking Tree Publishers, collection Cormarë, 2008.
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