Carrots

Carrots was a character in an unfinished and unpublished children's tale by J.R.R. Tolkien.

When the Tolkien family had moved in 1924 to 2 Darnley Road 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.