Tom didn't disappear because...he's an enigma [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] teehee...there's lots of threads on the subject
I think part of the reason that it didn't affect him was something Gandalf said-he just doesn't realise the importance of it? If it was given to him he'd like as not lose it...perhaps this lack of respect for its power means it has none over him
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But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.
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