Tom Bombadil - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Belin · 05-02-2002, 09:07 PM

Must say I agree with Halfir.. Tom's race, aside from being an inapplicable question (since there don't seem to be any more of his kind), seems less important than his role.

But maybe the two are related?? Is this indefinability part of what/who Tom is? I would say so.... The hobbits ask about him and are not answered, and even Gandalf and Elrond talk as if they didn't really understand him. I think that he's a being of mystery, the embodiment of things that are not properly considered or understood, almost in the same way that the Ents are. (I wonder if THEY know what he is?)

......... So maybe, after all, it is true that Tom is just Tom. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

--Belin Ibaimendi

05-02-2002, 09:07 PM	#14
Belin Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: all the wide unfriendly pathways of the world Posts: 330	Must say I agree with Halfir.. Tom's race, aside from being an inapplicable question (since there don't seem to be any more of his kind), seems less important than his role. But maybe the two are related?? Is this indefinability part of what/who Tom is? I would say so.... The hobbits ask about him and are not answered, and even Gandalf and Elrond talk as if they didn't really understand him. I think that he's a being of mystery, the embodiment of things that are not properly considered or understood, almost in the same way that the Ents are. (I wonder if THEY know what he is?) ......... So maybe, after all, it is true that Tom is just Tom. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] --Belin Ibaimendi __________________ "I hate dignity," cried Scraps, kicking a pebble high in the air and then trying to catch it as it fell. "Half the fools and all the wise folks are dignified, and I'm neither the one nor the other." --L. Frank Baum