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Originally Posted by mark12_30
Going to Faerie is different than having someone from Faerie visit you. Gandalf doesn't bring Faerie. Gildor brings a taste of it, but I doubt that Frodo, Sam, & Pippin stopped aging when they were with him.
If they ahd stayed for a month with Tom Bombadil, would they have aged then? I wonder.
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Good point.
But Tom Bombadil's house isn't Faerie. Or is it?
The debate goes ever on and on, down from the book where it began, now far ahead the debate shall go, over.......
The thing is Tom Bombadil is more "down to earth", so I think that rather than stay the same in the way of elves and Maia, like "beings from above" they'd be more like the earth, changing, getting older, maybe very slowly but still getting older. Or maybe they'd age in the way of seasons, so every year they'd get older quicker than normal, but then be younger again in the spring.