02-02-2002, 04:54 PM | #33 |
Elven Warrior
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Lothlorien (actually Wales, but let's not talk about that)
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I respect most of what u say about T.B, firstus ravenwood, I'm not sure about Tom and the Bombadilloes though
??? 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!
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