03-29-2003, 12:15 AM
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A Northern Soul
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Valinor
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Why Bombadil's whole purpose and identity cannot be understood, from the ever-useful Letter No. 153:
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Also T.B. exhibits another point in his attitude to the Ring, and its failure to affect him. You must concentrate on some pan, probably relatively small, of the World (Universe), whether to tell a tale, however long, or to learn anything however fundamental – and therefore much will from that 'point of view' be left out, distorted on the circumference, or seem a discordant oddity. The power of the Ring over all concerned, even the Wizards or Emissaries, is not a delusion – but it is not the whole picture, even of the then state and content of that pan of the Universe.
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