{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Tree and Leaf","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/tree-and-leaf","description":"Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will know. In his essay \u0026#39;On Fairy-Stories\u0026#39;, Tolkien discusses the nature of fairy-tales and fantasy and rescues the genre from those who would relegate it to juvenilia. \r\n\r\nThis is aptly and elegantly illustrated in the haunting short story, \u0026#39;Leaf by Niggle\u0026#39;, which recounts the story of the artist, Niggle, who has \u0026#39;a long journey\u0026#39; to make and is seen as an allegory of Tolkien \u0026#39;s life. \r\n\r\nThe poem Mythopoeia relates an argument between two unforgettable characters as they discuss the making of myths.\r\n\r\nWritten in the same period when \u0026#39;The Lord of the Rings\u0026#39; was beginning to take shape, these two works show Tolkien\u0026#39;s mastery and understanding of the art of sub-creation, the power to give fantasy the inner consistency of reality. Tree and Leaf is an eclectic, amusing, provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.R.R. Tolkien\u0026#39;s imagination, the depth of his knowledge of English history, and the breadth of his talent as a creator of fantastic fiction.","author_name":"J.R.R. Tolkien","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/j-r-r-tolkien","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/external_data/59463908/9c006186fb5a27366bfded06029e7ab593ddb9a2.jpeg","thumbnail_width":98,"thumbnail_height":143}