[Eldar14]

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Re: Of Bombadillos and Balrogs

Yes, but even if Tolkien did create Balrogs as a creature to be created by the imagination of each reader, he himself must have had his own opinion of what it looked liked. I feel as if his view would probably be considered the actual form by the majority of the Tolkien community.

Personally, even if Tolkien originally wrote in Tom not knowing what exactly he was, he would probably have eventually created an idea of what Tom was. He did everything else so thorough, why would he leave a wide gap right in the middle of it all? I myself think that Tom is NOT a representation of some country-side in Britain, but that he actually does fit in with ME. Maybe he was some sort of creature that was around the same time Ilu was, just kind of floating around the void (I say this as if he was NOT created by Ilu)

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