Tree and Leaf
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Tree and Leaf is a small book published in 1964, containing two works by J. R. R. Tolkien
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The book was originally illustrated by Pauline Baynes
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Mythopoeia
was added to the 1988 edition (ISBN 0395502322).
Both pieces were re-issued in the collection The Tolkien Reader
(1966), and have also appeared in various subsequent collections.
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
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- a revised version of an essay called "On Fairy-StoriesOn Fairy-Stories"On Fairy-Stories" is an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien which discusses the fairy-story as a literary form. It was initially written for presentation by Tolkien as the Andrew Lang lecture at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in 1939. It first appeared in print, with some enhancement, in 1947, in...
" (originally published in 1947 in Essays Presented to Charles Williams) - an allegorical short story called "Leaf by NiggleLeaf by Niggle"Leaf by Niggle" is a short story written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1938–39 and first published in the Dublin Review in January 1945. It can be found, most notably, in Tolkien's book titled Tree and Leaf, and in other places...
" (originally published in the Dublin ReviewDublin Review (Catholic periodical)The Dublin Review was an influential Catholic periodical founded in 1836 by Michael Joseph Quin, Cardinal Wiseman and Daniel O'Connell. Quin had the original idea for the new journal, soon persuading Wiseman to lend his support, and next enlisting O'Connell whose Catholic Emancipation campaign he...
in 1945).
The book was originally illustrated by Pauline Baynes
Pauline Baynes
Pauline Diana Baynes was an English book illustrator, whose work encompassed more than 100 books, notably those by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. She was born in Hove, Sussex....
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Mythopoeia
Mythopoeia (poem)
Mythopoeia is a term coined by J.R.R. Tolkien as a title of a poem.Tolkien wrote Mythopoeia following a discussion on the night of 19 September 1931 at Magdalen College, Oxford with C. S. Lewis and Hugo Dyson. Lewis said that myths were "lies breathed through silver". Tolkien's poem explained...
was added to the 1988 edition (ISBN 0395502322).
Both pieces were re-issued in the collection The Tolkien Reader
The Tolkien Reader
The Tolkien Reader is an anthology of works by J. R. R. Tolkien. It features a variety of short stories, poems, a play, and some non-fiction by Tolkien, published in 1966 by George Alwin & Unwin Ltd.-Contents:*"Publisher's Note"...
(1966), and have also appeared in various subsequent collections.