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Who is Eldest: Fangorn or Bombadil?
Please forgive me if this issue has already been brought up.
Bombadil is identified as the Oldest, and Fatherless, by both Elrond and Glorfindel at the Council of Elrond. Yet, when Gandalf the White returns to Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli in the eaves of Fangorn, he identifies Treebeard as "the oldest of the ents, the oldest living thing that still walks beneath the Sun upon this Middle-Earth". So which is it? Is Bombadil the Firstborn, or is it Fangorn? Many thanks for any thoughts you fellow Entmooters might have for this Enting....
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"...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160. |
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