Tom Bombadil is an anomaly. No, cancel that, Tom Bombadil was the name of Tolkien's daughter's doll, who found his way into the Lord of the Rings.
Beorn Beornbadil is, so far as what he is, is not an anomaly. But his history is certainly an anomaly. He was put in as a homage to the great hero Beowulf and to the crazed berserker warriors of the good old days. In The Hobbit his origin isn't explained, and I don't think that at any point Tolkien felt inclined or pressured to give him one. He is.
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But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name'.
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