Roverandom
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Roverandom
Buy Now for £7.99
-
Narrated by:
-
Derek Jacobi
-
By:
-
J. R. R. Tolkien
About this listen
Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi.
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, went through several drafts over the years. Now, many years on, the adventures of Rover – or, for reasons that become clear in the story, ‘Roverandom’ – are performed by Sir Derek Jacobi.
Critic reviews
‘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 Tolkien’s fabulous sense of landscape’
The Times
such a beautiful 'tail' (of the doggy sorts)
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Roverandom
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.