History Literature / Roverandom

* AtlantisIsBoring: When compared with the [[SceneryPorn ridiculously imaginative world]] on the moon, the Sea Kingdom seems a little dull and forgettable.

* UnreliableNarrator: Tinker believes the narrator to be this.

&&* HappyEnding

%%* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace

%%* ABoyAndHisX

%%* CharacterTitle

%%* HappyEnding

%%* LivingToys

%%* TalkingAnimal

%%* UrbanFantasy

This may have been because Tolkien intended this story just for his 3 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.

%%* BoringReturnJourney

%%* CatsAreMean: Tinker, at least if the narrator is to be believed.

* InterspeciesRomance: Artaxerxes and his Mermaid wife.

* IncrediblyLamePun: The lobsters' claim of being "red with rage."

This may have been because Tolkien intended this story just for his 3 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 it's 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.

* AllMythsAreTrue

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace
* BigDamnHeroes: The Man In The Moon
* [[spoiler:BoringReturnJourney]]
* ABoyAndHisX
* ButtMonkey: Artaxerxes, in the second half of the book.
* CatsAreMean: Tinker, at least if the narrator is to be believed.
* CharacterTitle
* ChaseScene
* ChekhovsGun: The sheep's bells.

* DreamLand: That, oddly-enough, exists in the physical world.
* EccentricMentor: The Man In The Moon
* GreenAesop: Not the main point (or even a major point) of the story, but still there regardless. This is standard with Tolkien.
* GrumpyOldMan: Artaxerxes
* [[spoiler:HappyEnding]]

* InterplanetaryVoyage

* JerkAss: Artexerxes
* LemonyNarrator
* LivingToys
* NoSympathy: Life pretty much sucks when you're the [=PAM=].

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The only reason this story even exists.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The Great White Dragon and the Sea Serpent.
* SceneryPorn: Keep in mind, this is Tolkien.
* TalkingAnimal
* UglyGuyHotWife

* UrbanFantasy

* ABoyAndHisDog

* DreamLand: T=that, oddly-enough, exists in the physical world.

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Arterxaxes, I mean Ertaxarxes, I mean Artaxerxes.

'''Roverandom''' was a book written and illustrated by Creator/JRRTolkien. 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.

* AuthorAppeal: Throws in an extended narration about Arthurian times for no reason other than - well - Tolkien was into that kind of stuff.

* ContinuityNod: Uin, a character from early drafts of Tolkien's legendarium, makes an appearance. This was retroactively subverted when Uin was written out of the legendarium's later drafts.

** Artaxerxes turning Rover into a toy over a pair of torn trousers

* DreamLand: That, oddly-enough, exists in the physical world

* GreenAesop: Not the main point (or even a major point) of the story, but still there regardless.

* IncrediblyLamePun: The lobsters' claim of being "red with rage".

* NoSympathy: Life pretty much sucks when you're the [=PAM=]
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, 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.

'''Roverandom''' was a book written and illustrated by JRRTolkien. 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.