Roverandom

Brand-new paperback edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy story about the adventures of a bewitched toy dog written before The Hobbit.While on holiday in 1925 four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach at Filey in Yorkshire. To console him his father J.R.R. Tolkien improvised a story about Rover a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy and is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him in order to be returned to normal.This charming tale peopled by a sand-sorcerer and a terrible dragon by the king of the sea and the Man-in-the-Moon was Tolkien’s first full-length children’s book written before The Hobbit. Now nearly 100 years later the adventures of Rover – or for reasons that become clear in the story ‘Roverandom’ – are published in this delightful new paperback edition. Rich in wit and wordplay Roverandom is edited and introduced by Tolkien experts Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond and includes Tolkien’s own delightful illustrations.