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I am afraid I loathe Tom Bombadil so much that I invariably skip those characters regarding them as a detour into a completely different book if not world., feel their inclusion as Tolkien's biggest error (second only to wishing he had rewritten the early chapters to eliminate the Hobbit style), and think that Bomabadils songs would make a Vogon queasy. So having rendered him a non-person he has zero influence....
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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