The Autobiographical Tolkien - 'Leaf by Niggle'... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 08-07-2002, 09:20 AM

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.

08-07-2002, 09:20 AM	#3
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	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.