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Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

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1995

Paradoxes

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J.R.R. Tolkien's "Leaf By Niggle": Word Pairs And Paradoxes, Anita G. Gorman Jan 1995

J.R.R. Tolkien's "Leaf By Niggle": Word Pairs And Paradoxes, Anita G. Gorman

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Examines Tolkien’s use of language in Tree and Leaf to “demonstrate the paradoxes inherent in Christianity [...] artistic creation [...] [and] ordinary life.” Asserts that Tolkien also “[suggests] the ultimate resolution of those paradoxes.”