Books by J.R.R.Tolkien - Roverandom
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Short Description: This is the first paperback of a short novel Tolkien wrote for his children in the mid-1920s. It was first published in hardcover in 1998. |
In 1925, Tolkien’s son Michael, then nearly five years old, lost his miniature toy dog on the beach. Tolkien wrote Roverandom to console his son. It tells the story of a dog named Rover, who annoys a wizard and is turned into a toy. The toy Rover is then lost on the beach by a young boy, and later found by a sand-sorcerer, who animates the toy. Roverandom tells of the random adventures of this toy dog Rover, on the far side of the Moon and under the sea.
Editions:
Originally published by Harper Collins in 1998 and reprinted many times since then.
