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Iarwain · 04-18-2003, 08:21 PM

I mourn. Tom doesn't have anything to do with Frodo going to Mordor, but that is not a statment that only applies to poor old tom. We could eliminate a huge list of characters on the same grounds: Theoden, Eomer, Eowyn, Treebeard, Saruman, even Aragorn. His character has as much value as any other, if not more for the fact that it is purely unique. Tom's character has huge value in the fact that the Lord of the Rings is a legend. We may go to great lengths to explain away the existence of almost all the other characters in Tolkien's Middle-Earth, but Tom is the one which is impossible to explain away. He is a part of the story, and that is the only purpose of his exsistence in Middle-Earth. Removing him is removing one of the truths about Arda as a whole.<P>Iarwain<p>[ April 18, 2003: Message edited by: Iarwain ]

04-18-2003, 08:21 PM	#16
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 800	I mourn. Tom doesn't have anything to do with Frodo going to Mordor, but that is not a statment that only applies to poor old tom. We could eliminate a huge list of characters on the same grounds: Theoden, Eomer, Eowyn, Treebeard, Saruman, even Aragorn. His character has as much value as any other, if not more for the fact that it is purely unique. Tom's character has huge value in the fact that the Lord of the Rings is a legend. We may go to great lengths to explain away the existence of almost all the other characters in Tolkien's Middle-Earth, but Tom is the one which is impossible to explain away. He is a part of the story, and that is the only purpose of his exsistence in Middle-Earth. Removing him is removing one of the truths about Arda as a whole.<P>Iarwain<p>[ April 18, 2003: Message edited by: Iarwain ] __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"