Tree and Leaf is a collection of works by J. R. R. Tolkien including an essay called "On Fairy-Stories", a short story called "Leaf by Niggle" and a poem called "Mythopoeia". J. R. R. Tolkien in 1972, in his study at Merton Street (from by H. Carpenter) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) is best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. ... On Fairy-Stories is an essay written by J. R. R. Tolkien, first published in Essays Presented to Charles Williams, Oxford University Press, 1947. ... Leaf by Niggle is a short story written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1938-39 and first published in the Dublin Review in January 1945. ...

The book was originally illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Pauline Baynes (born 1922) is an English book illustrator, whose work encompasses more than 100 books. ...

The stories were published again in 1966 in the collection The Tolkien Reader, which also includes "Farmer Giles of Ham," "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil," "The Battle of Malden," and Peter Beagle's "Tolkien's Magic Ring." Farmer Giles of Ham (written in 1947, published in 1949) is a short story written by J. R. R. Tolkien. ...