""Leaf by Niggle" ends as a comedy, even as a "divine comedy," on more levels than one. But while it looks forward to "divine comedy", it incorporates and springs from a sense of earthly tragedy: failure, anxiety, and frustration."
— J. R. R. Tolkien

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Shippey, on Tolkien's autobiographical allegorical tale "Leaf by Niggle," in J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (2001), p. 277