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J R R Tolkien, Wayne G Hammond,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Publisher)
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1998
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A major event for fantasy lovers everywhere--a previously unpublished book-length romp by the author of "The Hobbit". In 1925, while on vacation on the Yorkshire coast, Tolkien's four-year-old son Michael loses his favorite toy, a little lead dog. To console and distract him, his father improvises a story--the tale of Rover, a real dog magically transformed into toy, who has many fantastic adventures while searching for the wizard who wronged him. Color & black and white plates.
In 1925, while on vacation with his family on the Yorkshire coast, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his favorite toy, a little lead dog he was reluctant to put down even to dig in the sand. To console and distract him, his father, J. R. R. Tolkien, improvised a story - the story of Rover, a real dog magically transformed into a toy, who, after many fantastic adventures in search of the wizard who wronged him, at last wins back his life. This charming tale, peopled by a wise old whale and a terrible dragon, by the king of the sea and the Man-in-the-Moon, was a Tolkien family favorite, going through several typewritten drafts over many years. In 1936, Tolkien submitted it to his British publishers as a possible follow-up to The Hobbit. What his publishers really wanted, however, was another story about Middle-earth, and so he set aside this little book to begin his masterwork, The Lord of the Rings.
