Beorn

[the phantom]

Originally Posted by Aiwendil

Does Beorn 'not fit' with the Legendarium? I don't see any obvious reason that he shouldn't.

His height alone keeps him from fitting within the legendarium.

Good Mr BB has used textual evidence to peg Beorn at 12 feet. But according to the legendarium Tuor was the tallest man. No way was Tuor a dozen feet tall.

Kuru said it right-

I've always thought that Beorn danced on the margins of Tom Bombadilism

Beorn, like Bombadil, is difficult to make sense of.

How can he be just a man? When in Middle Earth do men turn into bears? If it's some sort of magic, wouldn't the men of Numenor, the most advanced men, be able to do it? Wouldn't Gondor have an army of giant bear-men? Or more likely, wouldn't Sauron?

Beorn doesn't make sense as a man within the legendarium. No way. The only way I can fit him into the legendarium is to theorize that he is descended from a human who wedded an Ainu who specialized in all things bear related.