Thus begins an incredible adventure for Roverandom. The search for the wizard who is supposed to restore his old dog form takes Roverandom to the moon and deep down into the sea. He meets the Man in the Moon and frolics with his winged dog around the moon tower, lurks for the moonbeams, and awakens the fearsome, green-fire spewing white dragon. Back on Earth, the wise whale brings him to the castle of the Sea King deep on the ocean floor. The story of the little dog Roverandom is among the finest that Tolkien ever wrote. He himself considered it a sequel to "The Hobbit." An appendix provides information about the creation of the story and the illustrations that Tolkien painted to accompany it. "Suddenly he felt much smaller. The grass seemed to grow enormously tall and sway high above his head; and through the grass, he could see, like the sun, d.