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| View Poll Results: Who or What is Tom Bombadil | |||
| A nature spirit? |
   
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14 | 29.17% |
| The spirit of Middle-earth itself? |
  
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11 | 22.92% |
| A Maiar? |
  
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5 | 10.42% |
| A Vala? |
  
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3 | 6.25% |
| An Elf? |
  
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0 | 0% |
| A Dwarf? |
  
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1 | 2.08% |
| An immortal Man? |
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0 | 0% |
| The reader? |
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1 | 2.08% |
| Eru? |
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0 | 0% |
| I'll tell you in my post! |
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13 | 27.08% |
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12-11-2005, 01:21 PM
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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 59
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Tolkien’s comment about Tom Bombadil being an enigma (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, no. 144) could also be interpreted to mean that he was an enigma to other inhabitants of Middle-earth, but perhaps not to the Author himself.
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