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Roverandom
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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Summary
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.
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‘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
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- Dan Sands
- 10-04-21
Roverandom
Listening to these faerie tales by Tolkien is great - this one, given the context in which it was written, is particularly special and full of wonderful scenes of brilliant imagination.
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- luvyduvydoli
- 08-07-17
such a beautiful 'tail' (of the doggy sorts)
one of my favourite stories. so beautifully written as always by Tolkien. I will be reading this over and over again to my children and grandchildren for years to come.
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