I became a Life Friend of Exeter Cathedral some time in the late 1990s. Devon is where my parents met in 1939.
More on the concept of sub-creating by Tolkien can be found in Paul Kocher "Master of Middle-Earth" (Penguin, 1972, p. 147 and onwards).
"The other half of the connection between Niggle's story and the essay, mentioned in the Introductory Note to Tree and Leaf is that they both touch ´in different ways, on what is called in the essay "sub-creation"`. What different ways, and what is this thing called sub-creation?"
Kocher goes on to put it like this: "...the process by which human imagination invents secondary worlds strange to the everyday primary world in which we live and move, but nevertheless possessed of an internal consistency of their own."
More on the concept of sub-creating by Tolkien can be found in Paul Kocher "Master of Middle-Earth" (Penguin, 1972, p. 147 and onwards).
"The other half of the connection between Niggle's story and the essay, mentioned in the Introductory Note to Tree and Leaf is that they both touch ´in different ways, on what is called in the essay "sub-creation"`. What different ways, and what is this thing called sub-creation?"
Kocher goes on to put it like this: "...the process by which human imagination invents secondary worlds strange to the everyday primary world in which we live and move, but nevertheless possessed of an internal consistency of their own."