Editing Leaf by Niggle (section)

== Publication history ==

"Leaf by Niggle" was first published in the ''[[Dublin Review (Catholic periodical)|Dublin Review]]'' in 1945.<ref>{{cite web |last=Tolkien |first=Priscilla |author-link=Priscilla Tolkien |title=Leaf, by Niggle |url=https://www.tolkienestate.com/writing/priscilla-tolkien-leaf-by-niggle/ |website=Tolkien: The Official Site of the Tolkien Estate |access-date=23 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Neave" group="T">{{harvnb|Carpenter|2023|loc=Letter 241 to [[Jane Neave]], 8–9 September 1962 }}</ref> It first appeared in a book in 1964 alongside "[[On Fairy-Stories]]" in ''[[Tree and Leaf]]''.<ref group="T">{{harvnb|Tolkien|1964}}</ref> It has been republished in the collections ''[[The Tolkien Reader]]'' (1966),<ref group="T">{{cite book |last=Tolkien |first=J. R. R. |title=The Tolkien Reader |date=1966 |publisher=Ballantine |isbn=978-0-3452-4831-2 |oclc=26059501}}</ref> ''Poems & Stories'' (1980),<ref group="T">{{cite book |last=Tolkien |first=J. R. R. |title=Poems and Stories |date=1980 |publisher=Allen and Unwin |isbn=978-0-0482-3174-1}}</ref> ''A Tolkien Miscellany'' (2002),<ref group="T">{{cite book |last=Tolkien |first=J. R. R. |title=A Tolkien Miscellany |date=2002 |publisher=Quality Paperback Book Club |isbn=978-0-9654-6377-5}}</ref> and ''Tales from the Perilous Realm'' (2021).<ref group="T">{{cite book |last=Tolkien |first=J. R. R. |title=Tales from the Perilous Realm |date=2021 |publisher=Mariner Books |isbn=978-0-3586-5296-0}}</ref>