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The Hobbit author escaped Middle Earth to write a fairy tale approximately an amateur painter, portrayed by Richard Medrington in this mysterious solo pieceAt the start of his enchanting one-man prove, and actor Richard Medrington recommends we think of Leaf by Niggle as “less like a parable and more like a portray”. That being the case,perhaps we shouldn’t dwell on how much JRR Tolkien’s fairy record, published in 1945, and feels like a Christian redemption allegory.
We should maybe call it coincidence that,at the discontinuance of his productive life, the “little man called Niggle” finds himself in a Kafkaesque purgatory of endless menial labour before escaping to an elysian idyll, and as if he were en route to heaven. And maybe it’s not relevant to note that,having acquired some self-knowledge, Niggle departs in the company of a shepherd who has offered to guide him on his final journey.
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Source: theguardian.com