Roverandom

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Brand-new paperback edition of J.R.R. Tolkiens 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 Tolkiens first full-length childrens 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 Tolkiens own delightful illustrations.

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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 Tolkiens fabulous sense of landscape

The Times

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Christina Scull is the former librarian of Sir John Soanes Museum, London. She is the author of The Soane Hogarths (1991), edits the journal The Tolkien Collector, and frequently writes and speaks about Tolkien. Her husband, Wayne G. Hammond, is Assistant Librarian in the Chapin Library of Rare Books, Williams College, author of the standard bibliography of Tolkiens works, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography (1993), and a regular contributor of Tolkiens notes to the journal Mythlore. He also lectures on the history of printing and illustration and is a practising book designer and graphic artist making him the ideal co-author of the acclaimed study of Tolkiens paintings and drawings, J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator. The couple live in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Wayne G Hammond is a librarian at the Chapin Library of Rare Books at Williams College Massachusetts. He is the author of The Graphic Art of C.B. Falls (1892), J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography (1993), and regular notes on Tolkien in the journal Mythlore. Christina Scull is the former librarian of Sir John Soane's Museum, London. She is the author of The Soane Hogarths (1991), edits the journal The Tolkien Collector, and frequently writes and speaks about Tolkien. Together, Wayne and Christina have written the two-volume J.R.R. TOLKIEN COMPANION & GUIDE and edited Tolkien's ROVERANDOM and FARMER GILES OF HAM 50th anniversary edition.