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Eruanna · 03-07-2005, 01:03 PM

I have to put my hand up and admit that I have very mixed feelings about Tom Bombadil, I'm afraid. I can't say that I dislike him (and Goldberry). I know that he's an enigma, one of a kind and all that, but he just doesn't seem to fit!
I think it's the tone of the story at that point. The Bombadil interlude is slightly childish, bearing in mind how serious and complex the story becomes later on and it tends to annoy me a little.

03-07-2005, 01:03 PM	#8
Eruanna Memento Mori Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Past The Point Of No Return Posts: 1,117	I have to put my hand up and admit that I have very mixed feelings about Tom Bombadil, I'm afraid. I can't say that I dislike him (and Goldberry). I know that he's an enigma, one of a kind and all that, but he just doesn't seem to fit! I think it's the tone of the story at that point. The Bombadil interlude is slightly childish, bearing in mind how serious and complex the story becomes later on and it tends to annoy me a little. __________________ "Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."