Editing Roverandom (section)

{{Short description|Novella by J. R. R. Tolkien}} 
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{{Infobox book
 |name = Roverandom
 |image = TolkienRoverandom.png
 |caption = Hardback edition, featuring Tolkien's illustration of a fantasized moonscape
 |border = yes
 |editor = [[Christina Scull]] & [[Wayne G. Hammond]]
 |author=[[J. R. R. Tolkien]]
 |country = United Kingdom
 |language = English
 |genre = [[Children's literature]]
 |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] (UK)
 |release_date = 1998
 |media_type = Print (hardback and paperback)
 |pages = 144 (hardback)
 | isbn =  978-0007523283
 | preceded_by = [[The Peoples of Middle-earth]]
 | followed_by = [[The Children of Húrin]]
}}
'''''Roverandom''''' is a novella by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], originally told in 1925, about the adventures of a young dog, Rover. In the story, an irritable wizard turns Rover into a toy, and Rover goes to the Moon and under the sea in order to find the wizard again to turn him back into a normal-sized dog. The author wrote ''Roverandom'' for his son Michael to amuse him upon the loss of his favourite toy, a little leaden dog which he lost on a beach of grey shingle stones the same size and colour as the toy. The work is in tone a children's story, but contains many allusions and references in the manner of ''[[Farmer Giles of Ham]]''.

It was submitted for publication in 1937 after the success of ''[[The Hobbit]]'', but was not published for over sixty years, finally being released in 1998. ''Roverandom'' was included in the collection ''[[Tales from the Perilous Realm]]'' from its 2009 reprinting onwards.