Leaf by Niggle

by

J. R. R. Tolkien

Niggle’s Painting

Niggle’s painting symbolizes the creative process as something that’s both organic and laborious. The painting is of a huge tree in a landscape of forests and mountains, and the tree seems to have…

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The Mountains

The mountains, which feature both in Niggle’s painting and in the land he enters after leaving the Workhouse, symbolize the unknown that follows death. Niggle struggles to paint the mountains perfectly, not quite able to…

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