I've never read it but I'd like to. I read in one of his letters to Stanley Unwin that he wrote it in just two hours. Very odd for the meticulous JRRT who's usually known for writing and re-writing over and over.
Having not read it I don't really know the conection but I remember reading somewhere that it was influenced by his writing LoTD. Something about how he started out writing a simple sequal to the hobbit but it kept growing broader. Like Niggle who I believe began wanting to paint a leaf but that became a tree and then a forest and so on. Is that what happened or am I completely mistaken. I really must read it.
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"Come away, O human child!/ To the waters and the wild/With a faery hand in hand,/ For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
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