RoverandomJ. 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