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Roverandom
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Roverandom was a book written and illustrated by J. R. R. Tolkien. It's a largely-comedic children's story about a young dog named Rover who makes the mistake of picking a fight with an ill-tempered wizard and ends up being turned into a toy. The rest of the book focuses on Rover's attempts to find the wizard so that things can be set right. Unfortunately for him, this means a massive journey into space and into the ocean depths.Despite it being penned early in Tolkien's career, it was never actually published until 1998.This may have been because Tolkien intended this story just for his three sons. Confused? Well, young Michael Tolkien had recently lost his beloved toy dog. Wanting to comfort the boy, his father improvised a story about the toy's origins as a real dog and its further adventures once it got lost. His boys got a kick out of the yarn. The book, having accomplished its purpose, was then shelved for over 60 years.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Dropped link to ToyTransmutation: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN | |
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Toy Transmutation | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Artaxerxes turning Rover into a toy over a pair of torn trousers. The Great White Dragon wanting to kill Rover and the Moon Rover for the sole reason that they trespassed in his cave. | |
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Cats Are Mean | |
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Cats Are Mean: Tinker, at least if the narrator is to be believed. When Rover is turned into a toy, one of his main fears is that Tinker will eat him. | |
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Batman Can Breathe in Space | |
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Batman Can Breathe in Space: When Rover makes it to the moon, the wizard there can breathe just fine. | |
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Author Appeal | |
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Author Appeal: Throws in an extended narration about Arthurian times for no reason other than — well — Tolkien was into that kind of stuff. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: The only reason this story even exists is to create a fictional story of a missing real life dog. | |
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Dreams vs. Nightmares | |
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Dreams vs. Nightmares: The Man on the Moon is responsible for good dreams and the moon-dwelling giant spiders for the bad ones. Since they're all frightened of the Man, they make nightmares in secret and when they are sure he isn't watching. | |
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Pun | |
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Pun: The lobsters' claim of being "red with rage." | |
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Interspecies Romance | |
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Interspecies Romance: Artaxerxes and his mermaid wife. | |
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Big Beautiful Woman | |
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Big Beautiful Woman: Artaxerxes’s mermaid wife. Middle-aged and stout, she is also always described as beautiful and charming. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Uin, a character from early drafts of Tolkien's Arda/Middle-Earth legendarium, makes an appearance. This was retroactively subverted when Uin was written out of the legendarium's later drafts. | |
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Living Toys | |
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Living Toys: Rover becomes an animate toy after annoying the wrong wizard. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: Arterxaxes, I mean Ertaxarxes, I mean Artaxerxes. | |
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Atlantis Is Boring | |
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Atlantis Is Boring: When compared with the ridiculously imaginative world on the moon, the Sea Kingdom seems a little dull and forgettable. | |
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Character Title | |
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Character Title: Rather than being the main character's real name, it's the nickname forced on him by the other characters whose names are also "Rover." This helps emphasize how little control he has over his own story. | |
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Boring Return Journey | |
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Boring Return Journey: Roverandom spends an entire book having adventures on the Moon and then in the sea, only for Artaxerxes to turn him back in a moment just because he’s in the right mood. Then Roverandom comes home and reunites with the boy over the course of several paragraphs. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One Steve Limit: Averted at first, but later enforced in-universe. There are three different Rovers in the story. Each of the other Rovers makes the main Rover go by the name "Roverandom" in an attempt to make things less confusing. | |
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Happy Ending | |
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Happy Ending: Rover succeeds in his quest to get turned back into a real dog, then reunites with the boy. | |
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Atlantis Is Boring / int_f8b0df3c | |
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Children's Literature / int_f8b0df3c | |
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Dreams vs. Nightmares / int_f8b0df3c | |
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English Literature / int_f8b0df3c | |
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Interplanetary Voyage / int_f8b0df3c | |
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Sliding Scale of Living Toys / int_f8b0df3c | |
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Toy Tales / int_f8b0df3c | |
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Toy Transmutation / int_f8b0df3c | |
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Urban Fantasy / int_f8b0df3c |
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