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Marileangorifurnimaluim · 01-29-2002, 11:12 PM

Eldar14 - you have a point, but I feel the real coming of age, for Frodo at any rate, was in the Barrow-Downs (appropriate nod to the barrow-wight), when he chooses to save his friends instead of putting on the ring and running. Tom didn't cause that, in fact they didn't listen to Tom's advice.

Eldar14 (your name is oddly appropriate) Tom is the direct living link to the eldar days. Elsewhere the history of ME is remembered, and in Lothlorien it tarries, like a dream (or Dreamflower), but with Tom Bombadil the ancient world of ME is fresh and alive. After meeting Tom, the ruins of ME are not empty shells but a reminder of something we (through the Hobbits) briefly experienced. He's vital to living breathing underlayer of ME. Just not to the narrative.

Rhudladion - yeah, I get a lot of ent jokes.

-Maril

01-29-2002, 11:12 PM	#10
Marileangorifurnimaluim Eerie Forest Spectre Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Buried in scrolls of fanfiction Posts: 798	Eldar14 - you have a point, but I feel the real coming of age, for Frodo at any rate, was in the Barrow-Downs (appropriate nod to the barrow-wight), when he chooses to save his friends instead of putting on the ring and running. Tom didn't cause that, in fact they didn't listen to Tom's advice. Eldar14 (your name is oddly appropriate) Tom is the direct living link to the eldar days. Elsewhere the history of ME is remembered, and in Lothlorien it tarries, like a dream (or Dreamflower), but with Tom Bombadil the ancient world of ME is fresh and alive. After meeting Tom, the ruins of ME are not empty shells but a reminder of something we (through the Hobbits) briefly experienced. He's vital to living breathing underlayer of ME. Just not to the narrative. Rhudladion - yeah, I get a lot of ent jokes. -Maril __________________ Deserves death! I daresay he does... And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them?