I remember how I felt at the beginning of this chapter the first time I read it. I felt that something awful was going to happen and then it turned out to be nothing. Then feeling of foreboding of the Hedge and the trees once they went through the gate, the stifling air in the forest, the "taking of the hobbits" by Old Man Willow and wondering what that Old Tom Bombadil was up to just when we get to the warmth of the house of Tom Bombadil-Tolkien really knew how to keep the reader guessing and how to bring their emotions to highs and lows in this chapter. What a wonderful storyteller and one of my most
favorite chapters!!!!
