Frodo 2968, I find it very hard to believe that Bombadil was Illuvatar. Why would he have no power against Sauron? Why would he be unwilling to leave the borders of the Barrow downs or unable to maintain his powers once he left? I think that he is no identifiable entity that has another name in Tolkien's works. I believe he is the embodiment and spirit of Arda, or perhaps, as Gwaihir suggested, a
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kind of personification of the Music of the Ainur
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, which would explain his gift and power with music (though none of these theories fully explain his connexion with and seeming derivation of power from the Old Forest and the Barrow-downs).