![]() ![]() Placed in the window of the shop, Rover is sold for a sixpence to a woman who gives Rover to her second son (boy Two). When the wizard, Artaxerxes, refuses to give the ball back Rover bites his trousers in retaliation, the wizard turns Rover into a small toy dog and transports him into a toy store. Rover, a black and white dog who lives with old lady and a cat named Tinker, is playing in the garden with his yellow ball when a wizard comes along and picks it up. Roverandom was included in the collection Tales from the Perilous Realm from its 2008 reprinting onwards. ![]() It was submitted for publication in 1937 after the success of The Hobbit, but was not published for over sixty years, finally being released in 1998, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. The work is in tone a children's story, but contains many allusions and references in the manner of Farmer Giles of Ham. Tolkien wrote Roverandom for his son Michael to amuse him upon the loss of his favourite toy, a little leaden dog which he lost on a beach. ![]() ![]() Rover goes on adventures to the moon and the bottom of the Deep Blue Sea on his quest to undo his bewitchment. The story tells of the adventures of the dog Rover who is turned into a toy by the wizard Artaxerxes. ![]()
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