In 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach. 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...
In 1925, while on vacation with his family on the Yorkshire coast, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his toy dog. His father, J.R.R. Tolkien improvised the story of Rover, a real dog magically transformed into a toy, to console him. This charming tale, peopled by a terrible...