I imagine that Tom was there when the world was created and he will continue to live on through all the ages, seperated from everyone else, just like Goldberry. Kind of a nice thought. I think once Tolkien said that he was the spirit of the vanishing Oxfordshire countryside.
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'What news from the South, O sighing wind, do you bring to me at eve?
Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve.'
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