Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien is a story based on an event that happened when Michael Tolkien was but a boy.Four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his favorite toy dog and his father created this story to give Michael an idea of what might have happened to his little toy dog.This was such a fun read!
As wonderful and rich and moving as he may be sometimes, Tolkien can be terribly boring. There is something of the lightness that makes 'The Hobbit' so much fun, but since Tolkien never fully prepped this book for publication, the final effort was never made to make this appealing to children. I'm s...
This book is about a dog named Rover. He bites a wizard and then to punish him, the wizard turns him into a very small toy dog.There were some parts of this book that I enjoyed, but most of the time, I found myself not being able to really get into the story. It was well-written and not a bad book. ...
Originally posted here.Farmer Giles of Ham pretty much epitomizes everything I love about Tolkien. We get a winking narrator, similar to the narrator of The Hobbit; there's a hand-drawn map; it's full of humour and little philological jokes and asides; best of all, it does what he set out to do wit...
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...
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