Who do you think Tom Bombadil really was

[HerenIstarion]

Wight
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Re: Tom Bombadil

Easy, easy, lads don't tear me apart and mince me into thousand le-e-eetle pieces

I for myself beleive Bombadil to be a maia, but, due to JRRT's silence on the subject, and, therefore, lack of textual evidence, I can not give mo convenient proves apart from mentioned, and tacle with what I have

Still, for me he is not Gandalf's superior, nor one lesser, but one of the same rank, though acting (or, if you like acting not at all, bounding himself inside self settled frontieres) in the different way.

...but what they are really like, and what lies beyond them, only those can say who have climbed them