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Carrots was a character in an unfinished and unpublished children's[1] tale by J.R.R. Tolkien.[2]
When the Tolkien family had moved in 1924[1] to 2 Darnley Road[1] in Leeds, John Tolkien recalled that he often had difficulty falling asleep and his father would come to his bedside and tell stories to him. One of these tales was about a boy named Carrots, who had red hair and climbed "into a cuckoo clock" to go off on a series of strange adventures.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 125 (entry "17 March 1924")
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, "IV. 1925-1949(i): 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit'", Chapter VI: The Storyteller, first paragraph