My new theory on Tom Bombadil

[Kwijibo]

I respect most of what u say about T.B, firstus ravenwood, I'm not sure about Tom and the Bombadilloes though

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I do recken that Tom Bombadil is quite essential 2 Middle-Earth and the LotR books. I think there is quite possibly a little bit of Tom inside all of us. He's seems really merry and totally carefree, but underneath, he's all knowledgeable, like Treebeard. I suppose Tom Bombadil is 2 the Old Forest as Treebeard is 2 Fangorn Forest.

He can seem wrapped up in his own little forest and his own little world though. He did say, i think, that he didn't venture outside his own forest.

'Ignorant' isn't the rite word 2 use however. He's clearly concerned with what happens around him, but puts a happy face on everthing. When he rescued the hobbits from the Barrow-downs, I believe he was singing? And i don't think he's too scared - he fought off Old Man Willow and the Barrow-Wights!

Perhaps Tom is a kind of human ent. He's an interesting theory:

Tom Bombadil was born an Ent in Fangorn Forest, he roamed the world of Middle-Earth and finally settled in the Old Forest. There he met Goldberry and slowly became humanish. I bet if u asked him nicely he'd speak a bit of Entish.

Basically, Tom Bombadil ROX! So does Tim Benzedrine!