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	Encyclopedia: Leaf-by-Niggle
		Of course, the allegory of "Leaf by Niggle" is life, death, purgatory and paradise.
		Niggle is not prepared for his unavoidable trip, as humans often are not prepared for death.
		Niggle's yearnings after truth and beauty (God's creations) are echoed in his great painting; after death, Niggle is rewarded with the realization (the making-real) of his yearning.
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	Leaf by Niggle -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Leaf by Niggle" is very much an (An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor) allegory of Tolkien's own creative process, and, to an extent, of his own life.
		Working only to please himself, he (A substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating) paints a canvas of a great Tree, in the middle of a Forest, with many other trees around as well.
		And like Niggle, Tolkien was a horrible procrastinator — late in life, Tolkien spent hours playing solitary card games instead of working on (Click link for more info and facts about The Silmarillion) The Silmarillion.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leaf_by_niggle.htm (864 words)

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	leaf
		For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the chloroplast containing cells (chlorenchyma) to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues.
		A structurally complete leaf of an angiosperm consists of a petiole (leaf stem), a lamina (leaf blade), and stipules (small processes located to either side of the base of the petiole).
		The veins are made up of xylem, which brings water from the stem into the leaf, and phloem, which usually moves sap out, the latter containing the glucose produce by photosynthesis in the leaf.
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	Leaf by Niggle - a symbolic story about a small painter
		Niggle is an artists who paints to please himself, living in a society that holds art in little regard.
		Niggle takes time off from his work, because of politeness, to aid his neighbor, a gardener named Parish who is lame and has a sick wife.
		The second time Leaf by Niggle was published by Tolkien it was in Tree and Leaf in 1964, a book consisting of two items, the short story 'Leaf by Niggle' and an essay 'On Fairy-Stories'; both have since become readily available in other editions.
	www.tolkienlibrary.com /reviews/leafbyniggle.htm (1363 words)

	WCU - Spring 2005 Leaf By Niggle
		Niggle is ready to go on to the next stage, to the mountains off in the distance, but Parish hangs back, waiting for his wife.
		Niggle paints a leaf, but from that leaf an entire world emerges to fill the space around it, including singing birds, and fields, and distant mountains.
		Niggle has some of the stereotypical characteristics we may associate with artists: he's relatively isolated, dreamy and distracted; his priorities are different from those of most people.
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	Tool Explorer Niggle
		Niggle is a java class library that makes it extremely easy to develop robust, maintainable web applications.
		"Leaf by Niggle" is a short story written by JRR Tolkien in 1938-39 and first published in the Dublin Review in January 1945.
		Sakredchao, Posted Of course, the allegory of "Leaf by Niggle" is life, death, purgatory and paradise.
	www.tool-explorer.de /Handhelds/Niggle.php (154 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Smith of Wooton Major: AND Leaf by Niggle [Audiobook] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This, along with his marvelous short story Leaf by Niggle, are essential of you want to read and understand this Godly man's life.
		Tree and Leaf, a small book containing the short story aforementioned and his classic essay On Faerie Stories, along with this, will enlighten you greatly on his views of Faerie.
		These three are essential to understand this man. Leaf By Niggle is him venting his frustration, and then him expressing great hope for his work.
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	Books : Tales from the Perilous Realm
		I have to say that my favorites were "Leaf by Niggle" and "Smith of Wotton Major".
		Leaf by Niggle: Is a must for all.
		Containing four short stories called: 'Farmer Giles Of Ham', 'The Adventures Of Tom Bombadil', 'Leaf By Niggle' and 'Smith Of Wootton Major', it is yet again one of the most enthralling books you'll ever read.
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	Expecting you since the Spring: examining Rosie Cotton. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Parish is married, and Niggle begrudges having to leave his painting in order to fetch the doctor when Mrs Parish becomes ill. Niggle's desire to paint all the time causes Parish's house to fall into disrepair.
		Niggle cannot achieve spiritual fulfilment (he needed that time provided by Parish in order to create his art) without the ordinary physical realities which Parish gives him.
		Leaf by Niggle is of interest in and of itself as a work of art, but is also a source of interesting links between the motifs in Tolkien's writing and the stories of his own life.
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	Tolkien's Books - HobbitHoleWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of The Lord of the Rings, and was first released in 1954, after a great deal of work.
		Tree and Leaf, a collection consisting of “On Fairy-stories”, “Leaf by Niggle” and in the second edition (1988) the poem “Mythopoeia”.
		Poems and Stories, a collection consisting of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth”, Farmer Giles of Ham, “Leaf by Niggle”, “On Fairy-stories” and Smith of Wootton Major.
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	Bibliography of Tolkien
		This is aptly and elegantly illustrated in the haunting short story, "Leaf by Niggle", which recounts the story of the artist, Niggle, who has 'a long journey to make' and is seen as an allegory of Tolkien's life.
		Niggle is an artist who works to please himself, living in a society that holds art in little regard.
		Niggle takes time off from his work to aid his neighbor, a gardener named Parish who is lame and has a sick wife.
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	The Perpetual Three-Dot Column
		By college, my favorite Tolkien tale was not The Lord of the Rings but "Leaf by Niggle," a short story he published first in 1947 and then, paired with the essay "On Fairy-Stories," as the slim volume Tree and Leaf in 1964.
		While the world around him seems obsessed with trite legalities and matters of state, Niggle passes his time in the act of creation, inventing a new reality that not only is preferable to the world of a "serviceable cog" (Tolkien's phrase), but at story's end is truer than that world as well.
		His hobbits lived in a Chestertonian sort of anarchy; and Niggle is, in his ground-down way, an individualist hero -- smaller, realer, and altogether more interesting than the boring supermen favored by another sort of libertarian.
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	tolkienist.de - Die Tolkien-Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Moving swiftly from this assertion he touches on the story of Christ, and argues that here is a perfect example of a fairy-story eucatastrophe, the difference being that it actually happened.
		The unfinished canvas is seized by public authorities and used to plug a leaky roof.
		Niggle finds himself in a sort of fairyland purgatory, placed at hard labor until the Voices discuss his case, and the Second Voice wins some amelioration in his condition.
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		It had begun with a leaf caught in the wind, and it became a tree; and the tree grew, sending out innumerable branches, and thrusting out the most fantastic roots.
		Then all round the Tree, and behind it, through the gaps in the leaves and boughs, a country began to open out; and there were glimpses of a forest marching over the land, and of mountains tipped with snow.
		Niggle lived in a world where creation was forbidden, and "they" eventually came to get him, locked him away for decades until he had served some unexplained punishment for his crime.
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	One of a kind Leaf
		See live article Leaf node In computer science, a leaf node is a node of a tree data structure that has zero child nodes.
		Often, leaf nodes are the nodes farthest from the root node.
		In the graph theory tree, a leaf node is a vertex of degree 1 other...
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	Grace Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I seems plain that this was a genuine sacrifice: Niggle guessed that he was throwing away his last chance with his picture, and he guessed, too, that Parish was worrying unnecessarily."
		They seem to pass into an afterlife of some kind, which is a setting that Niggle painted, where they learn to live in harmony and appreciate each others skills.
		I've put it in with Grace and Works because the Voices base their decision on Niggle's works, yet he recognizes that it is only through the Second Voice's grace that he has moved to the Gentle Treatment.
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		See live article Leaf by Niggle "Leaf by Niggle" is a short story written by J. Tolkien in 1938-39 and first published in the Dublin Review in January 1945.
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	In the 'As-If' World
		His present slender volume consists of a long essay, "On Fairy-Stories," and a tale, "Leaf by Niggle," which happily illustrates the points made in the essay.
		In the attached tale, "Leaf by Niggle," Tolkien tells the story of a painter, persistent but not too talented, who is determined to finish an enormous canvas of a tree before he packs for the long journey.
		Sweetness, combined with sober moral vigor, gives this tale a quality all its own, and its creation of a world curiously familiar and yet transformed make "Leaf by Niggle" a haunting and successful demonstration of the qualities of faerie.
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		Leaf by Niggle—The Final Journey “Niggle went, quite quietly.
		The Driver gave him no time to pack, saying that he ought to have done that before, and they would miss the train; so all Niggle could do was to grab a little bag in the hall.
		Niggle was feeling very tired and sleepy; he was hardly aware of what was going on when they bundled him into his compartment.
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	Tolkien Fantasy Tales Box Set (The Tolkien Reader/The Silmarillion/Unfinished Tales/Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		TREE AND LEAF: This is a book consisting of two things: his essay on faerie tales, and Leaf By Niggle.
		Leaf By Niggle is a very deep work, and basically it deals with his despair of mortality and not being able to finish his mythology, his great work.
		That, along with the two works constituting TREE AND LEAF, is the closest thing to autobiography he ever wrote, and all three are vitally important in any serious study of Tolkien.
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	Amazon.com: Books: J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The rest of these brief essays explore various topics in Tolkienana, such as the real heroes in The Lord of the Rings (this heroism is greatly attractive in the movies), and a topic he often discusses at fantasy conventions: myth, fantasy and science-fiction in The Lord of the Rings.
		The attention paid by Purtill to the first of these, "Leaf by Niggle" will surprise some readers, but it is I think justified by the parallels between the character Niggle and Tolkien; to understand how Tolkien saw Niggle is to a considerable extent to understand how Tolkien saw himself.
		If "Leaf by Niggle" is about the relationship between Tolkien and his writing, "On Fairy Stories" is about the relationship between Tolkien's writing and the world.
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	A Critical Look at A Leaf By Niggle
		His fascination with linguistics inspired him to invent several languages, later elaborating an entire cosmogony and history of Middle-earth as background.
		"Leaf By Niggle" is a short story written by J. Tolkien in 1938 and publishedin 1945.
		It is often thought that this short story is one of Tolkien's only works that uses the literary element of the allegory.
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	Lord of the Rings Fanatics Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leaf by Niggle - The story of Niggle, the painter, and his trials and tribulations, and the closest Tolkien ever got to both allegory and autobiography.
		Tree and Leaf - an issue in a single volume of the 1945 'Leaf by Niggle" and the 1947 'On Fairy Stories’.
		Tree and Leaf - re-issues in one volume of 'On Fairy Stories', 'Leaf by Niggle', 'Smith of Wootton Major', ‘The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth'.
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	The Fantastic Seriousness of J. R. R. Tolkien / téma - lynn forest-hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Lord of the Rings, apparently ignoring, for the most part, his intensely allegorical short story ‘Leaf by Niggle’, which demonstrates his consummate skill in the use of this form as a means of depicting some of the basic tenets of Roman Catholic eschatology.
		Lord of the Rings and the fable of ‘Leaf by Niggle’ illustrates a distinction in the way Tolkien regarded the use of allegory.
		Edith helped with copying some early manuscripts, but little trace of conventional domesticity is to be found in any of Tolkien’s major works, and almost all of his family relationships in his major books reveal tension between parents and children, or the fostering and plight of orphaned children.
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	The Life and Influences of J.R.R. Tolkien
		In 1945, Tolkien became Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford, and in 1948, “Leaf by Niggle” was published.
		“Leaf by Niggle” and “On Fairy Stories” were published together in a single edition called Tree and Leaf in 1964, and the following year, the first American paperback edition of The Lord of the Rings was published.
		But Ungoliant sucked it up, and going then from Tree to Tree she set her fl beak to their wounds, till they were drained; and the poison of Death that was in her went into their tissues and withered them, root, branch and leaf; and they died” (Tolkien 1977, 73).
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