A chance to finish what we've started? Oh, wouldn't that be truly wonderful? One can only hope.
Perhaps another application of the neglected, untended garden, was Tolkien's wife. She did not like Oxford, nor Tollers's penchant for spending so much time with Oxford men. The biographers tell us that their married life was not easy, them being so different from each other.
Parish would be anyone who had a real need but had the habit of expressing it poorly and being demanding about it, and who considered Niggle's work not worth the paper it's painted on. It's interesting how both Niggle and Parish had to learn from each other in the gateway to Paradise.
More later. I hope.
|