Who Is Tom Bombadil? | Tolkien Lore
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@InDeepGeek · 2 years ago · pinned
This is a revised and updated version of a video first published in March 2020
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@golbez1583 · 2 years ago
That moment when you realize that Tom Bombadil is ‘older than old’ simply because the character was developed before the story of middle earth itself XD.
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@jefthereaper · 1 year ago
Sauron looking in absolute confusion as Tom Bombadil joyfully walks through Mordor without facing any opposition.
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@DragonsAndDragons777 · 2 years ago
Everyone always asks; "Who is Tom Bombadil?", never "How is Tom Bombadil?"
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@kris_kros_2 · 4 months ago
God what I would give to have been able to read that conversation between Tom and Gandalf in the end.
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@thedragondemands · 2 years ago
He's a merry fellow.
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@romyaakovyan8067 · 2 years ago
The part of Tom Bombadil in the story (Book 1, chapters 6-8) always feels to me like a higher kind of fantasy. When proceeding to the next chapter and connecting back to the main plot in Bree, it feels like waking up from a dream, even though the 'adventure' continues. It's amazing how Tolkien can make a fantasy world inside a fantasy world.
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@LEGOMANIAC419 · 2 years ago
“Why do we leave the ring with Tom Bombadil?”<br>“I mean, sure, he seems immune to the Ring, but can you really expect him to keep track of it?”
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@ChowdhuryExcel · 1 year ago
He's just a chill guy
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@McClogs · 2 years ago
Buddy, your narration is so pleasing. Your tone of voice, your vocabulary and intonation... it's all spot on!
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@891Henry · 2 years ago
I see Bombadil as Tolkien's homage to the countryside, his rose-tinted belief in the simple life of the past. He is the epitome of the very best of us when we leave the world alone to shine in its own glory, unaltered by the hand of man.
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@tomharrington1453 · 2 years ago (edited)
I have heard it explained this way: Tom Bombadil is a reminder that nature and the natural world are bigger and more eternal than men, dwarves, elves, orca and trolls. Regardless of how the war of the ring comes out nature will continue as it will. I think it’s a reminder from the author that despite the urgency of the story, the natural world will continue. I think Bombadil is meant to help us keep things in perspective.
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