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Tolkien
Leaf by Niggle
On Fairy-Stories
Farie contains many things beside elves and fays it
holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and all the
earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water
and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men,
when we are enchanted (9).
Discussion Questions
2 kinds of men, Niggle & Parish
What kind of trouble is Niggle in?
What does he mean by interruptions?
Has he done anything to bring these troubles
on himself?
Divine
The Mountains = ?
What is the meaning of the Mountains that
Niggle catches glimpse of?
Privacy/self-worship = deadly
(satisfaction instead of pleasure; with loss of own time
became master of his time with no sense of rush [98])