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Leaf by Niggle Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi.

Leaf by Niggle recounts the strange travels from the painter Niggle, who also sets out to color the perfect tree. But he senses that he will be snatched away from his work long before it is finished – if indeed it might ever be finished nowadays. For it is within another and brighter place that Niggle finds his tree is completed, and learns that it’s indeed a real tree, a true portion of creation.

Written in the first 1940s at the same time as The Lord of the Rings was taking form, ‘Leaf by Niggle’ is normally a passionate adult story book about a man who has ‘a longer journey to make’, thought to be an allegory of Tolkien’s own life.