Pocket Roverandum

HardCover. Pub Date :2013-09-26 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd JRR 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. JRRTolkien. 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 90 years later. the adventures of Rover - or. for reasons that become clear in the story. 'Roverandom' - are published in this delightful pocket hardback edition ...