This topic arises from a brief discussion I had a while ago with one of my LOTR-obssessed friends. Whether or not you take it seriously depends on whether you believe that
Roverandom is linked to Middle-earth. It seems to me almost as if
Roverandom is meant to be set in a later version of Middle-earth (as indeed is our world):
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...imaginatively this 'history' is supposed to have taken place in a period of the actual Old World of this planet.
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So, seeing as
Roverandom is presumably set in our world, it may very well be assumed that in
Roverandom we are dealing with a later version of Middle-earth itself.
With that established, we see that there are dragons on the moon in Roverandom:
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All white dragons originally come from the moon, as you probably know...
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The moon-dog did not know everything about the moon, as you see, or he would have known that this was the lair of the Great White Dragon...
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So how did dragons get to the moon? We know that
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[Morgoth] assailed Tilion, sending spirits of shadow against him
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But dragons were not spirits, were they? And to get to the moon, dragons would have to pass through Ilmen, a place where "flesh unaided cannot endure".
So how did dragons get to the moon? Any ideas? Or is
Roverandom not meant to be taken seriously?
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1.
Letters, #165, page 220
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Roverandom, page 32
3. same as above
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The Silmarillion, page 117
5.
The Silmarillion, page 349