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Post by Galdor Nénharma on Apr 8, 2004 22:13:42 GMT -5
I just realized that we were missing something on our forums. This is a LotR fan sight, but there is not one tread on Tom Bombadil! gasp of shock This thread is for any discussion on the interesting character who lives in the Old Forrest.
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Post by manwe on Apr 9, 2004 13:08:49 GMT -5
Well, if you would post this on the other thread, i will look it up in the encyclopeidia, or i will answer it here if you want.
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Post by aninduil on Apr 10, 2004 8:29:57 GMT -5
The only thing I know about him is that he can completly resist the One Ring.
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Post by Galdor Nénharma on Apr 10, 2004 11:44:09 GMT -5
I think the reason that he can resist the Ring’s lure is that he has no dreams of power, fame and glory. Sort of like Faramir in the Two Towers when he mourned the fall of his brother. And to the encyclopedia, it would be more fun to discuss what we think about him. He is a rather interesting person after all, and paragraph from a book just doesn’t capture him very well
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Post by Blackheart on Apr 16, 2004 8:47:48 GMT -5
Wasn't Tom Bombadil one of those Maiar spirits that came to Middle-earth like Gandalf
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Post by elvensword on Apr 20, 2004 8:59:49 GMT -5
Whatever he is, he's one weird guy. He goes round singing all day and annoying travellers.
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Post by Elrohir on Apr 20, 2004 10:49:06 GMT -5
Well...he could have been a very happy and peace loving major spirit? ;D
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Post by Galdor Nénharma on Apr 20, 2004 17:01:18 GMT -5
By major spirit do you mean the Valar? I don’t think so, he doesn’t sound like any of them and they are all accounted for in other literature. But I do think he is a Maiar, not sure of his power compaired, but it is strong. The fact that he is singing all the time shows us that, because all the realy strong magic comes from song. Because in M E song was very powerful, such as the Creation and also in the story of Beren.
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Post by Elrohir on Apr 20, 2004 17:20:17 GMT -5
Wasn't Tom Bombadil one of those Maiar spirits that came to Middle-earth like Gandalf As you can see i was calling Tom a Maiar spirit (i happened to spell it wrong). Anyway, tahts a good point about songs being the strongest form of magic, because that now opens up the possibility for a Bard class in MEO, oh wonderful! If you havn't already guessed i hate bards...
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Post by Wranti on Apr 21, 2004 17:43:51 GMT -5
I don't know too much on Tom Bombadil. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't he related to Bilbo? or was that someone else?
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Post by Blackheart on Apr 21, 2004 18:07:22 GMT -5
Alot of hobbits are probably related to Bilbo in some way, but i doubt he was related to Tom Bombadil or any other maiar spirits...
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Post by Galdor Nénharma on Apr 21, 2004 20:18:29 GMT -5
There is a hobbit legend that one of the Tooks had taken a faire wife sometime in the past, which would explain why the Took blood is a bit queer. But that rumor is not well supported in the books, and Tolkien was himself skeptical of the claim. I think that was somewhere in ‘An unexpected Party’ in the Hobbit.
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Post by Blackheart on Apr 25, 2004 14:20:33 GMT -5
Well heres what it says in the hobbit...
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Post by Imbeglín Oronrá on May 1, 2004 16:43:02 GMT -5
Here's a description of Tom Bombadil -
A mysterious and powerful being, called by the Elves Iarwain Ben-adar (Oldest and Fatherless), who dwelt in the valley of the Withywindle, east of the Shire. What kind of being he was has never been certainly discovered (see The Riddle of Tom Bombadil below), but at some stage in the past, he seems to have settled at the edge of the Old Forest, setting himself boundaries, but boundaries within which his power was extraordinary. Tom was a creature of contradictions, one moment defeating ancient forces with hardly an effort, the next capering and singing nonsensical songs.
He appeared as an old man, at least in hobbit eyes, with a wrinkled and ruddy face, bright blue eyes, and a bristling brown beard. He was said to be taller than a typical hobbit, but too short to be a Man, so he seems to have been about five feet in height. His costume consisted of a blue jacket and yellow boots, and he wore an old and battered hat, surmounted by a feather. He seems to have preferred to wear a swan-feather in his hat, but before he met Frodo and company on the banks of the Withywindle, he had acquired the feather of a Kingfisher instead. In his own house, rather than a hat, he wore a crown of autumn leaves, perhaps revealing something of the elemental powers he possessed.
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Post by elvensword on May 2, 2004 8:04:38 GMT -5
No doubt he was very powerful and equally annoying.
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