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Title:Roverandom
Author:J.R.R. Tolkien
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 116 pages
Published:September 2nd 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published 1998)
Categories:Fantasy. Fiction. Childrens. Classics

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A classic children's story by the author of The Hobbit

Rover should never have bitten the wizard's trousers. His punishment was to be transformed into a toy, and now he is forced to track down the magician so he can be returned to normal. His adventures will take him to the moon and under the sea, introducing him to many fabulous - and dangerous - creatures.

Inspired by the loss of his own child's favourite toy, this charming tale was written by J.R.R. Tolkien long before The Hobbit, yet remained unpublished for more than 70 years. This new paperback edition includes a full introduction and detailed notes about the story.

This is an old-fashioned story, yet it still speaks freshly today... would leap to life when read aloud to a child. - INDEPENDENT

Lord of the Rings buffs will enjoy picking out bits of Nordic mythology and will relish Tolkien's fabulous sense of landscape - THE TIMES

Cover illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Original Title: Roverandom
ISBN: 0007149115 (ISBN13: 9780007149117)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies (2000)

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This is a cute book but not my favorite of Tolkien's. I couldn't help but compare to it other books that a famous author father wrote for his children about mystical lands and containing elegant wordplay: Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie, which are much more entertaining and skillful. However, I'm a Tolkien fan, and I enjoyed this book. It's not up to the level of The Hobbit for me, which I've read about seven times--I would never reread Roverandom

This is a fantastically childish book that is thoroughly charming; it really captures the essence of Tolkiens softer themes and humour. Not everything has to be constantly dark and foreboding for his writing to be successful. This is simple, imaginative and a good little bit of fun. The tale is quaint and fairly short in which a dog, initially named Rover, is turned into a toy as an act of revenge because he bit a mean old sand sorcerer. Some people really are that petty. This leads to a series

A great find! Tolkien wrote this as a story for his children when his second son lost his toy dog at the seashore. Tolkien made up a story about a toy dog getting cursed by a grumpy wizard, only to be helped by a sand sorcerer, and sent on all these adventures, including visiting the Man on the Moon and his moon-dog, and then visiting the Mer-king under the sea and his mer-dog. Eventually, Rover (or Roverandom as he was called by then) managed to make it back to land and met the grumpy wizard

As a huge fan of Tolkien and all his works, I'm surprised that I've only decided to read Roverandom now. The book is beautiful - if you're a fan of 'The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairlyand in a Ship of her Own Making' or even Alice in Wonderland, I'd recommend this book. It's unlike Tolkien's Middle-earth, to which everyone is acquainted. Aimed at children, but definitely worth reading at any age, Roverandom is the tale of a little dog, Rover, who gets turned into a toy after meddling in the

I'm ashamed to admit it took me years to read Roverandom, but I'm so glad I finally did. I actually started the book years ago at the repeated insistence of my now-best friend, but I only made it a third of the way through before it went back to the library. I wasn't interested enough to check it out again and finish it then, though I always meant to. As a teenager, I just wasn't very interested in any Tolkien except Middle-earth, even though I was a die-hard Tolkien fan and was very much

So what to say about this? First, honestly, if you are going to have notes in the back of the book, could you please (with a cherry on top) let the reader know when there is a note? Just saying.This is not as good as LOTR or the Hobbit,yet a reader can see the beginnings of both in this story. It is hard not to see figure of Gandalf and even Biblo in this short story about a dog. It isn't, I think, as child friendly to outloud reading as the Hobbit. It lacks that later book's charm.

Random is right.I read this one many years ago, when the throes of my LOTR obsession were still young. I was reading everything by Tolkien I could get my hands on.This one was a bit disappointing after the scope and characters of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. It was a fun enough story, I enjoyed it and all, but it was completely forgettable.Not my fave Tolkien by a long shot, but if you're a fan you kinda have to read it anyway, right?