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This is what happens when people reduce storytelling to plot and lose the ability to actually read prose. The Tom Bombadil sequence is not only essential to the book's themes, it also contains some of Tolkien's most astonishingly beautiful writing.
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu
Tom Bombadil stops the story cold. We are in an exciting cross-country trip as the hobbits pick their way through a creepy haunted forest to avoid the sinister Black Riders. A terrifying black huorn ensnares them. Poof! Here comes Tom deus-ex-machina Bombadil to save the hobbits from a threat which Tolkien seems to have created to give him an excuse to insert Bombadil. Then, just as the story starts to move again, Tom shows up a SECOND time as a deus-ex-machina to rescue the hobbits from the barrow wight. Ugh. Again stopping the story cold. What is Bombadil's function? He doesn't represent the Old Good Ways which the fellowship must save. Bombadil isn't threatened - he's a cheesy distraction. I'm not saying it's impossible to convince me that Bombadil is a Good Thing, but such a convincing would be an uphill battle, and I view Tom as one of Tolkien's missteps. I am happy Jackson left him out of the film, because it would have stopped the movie's flow too.
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@SandyofCthulhu You need to read “In the House of Tom Bombadil by @crwiley1962. It’s a beautiful book that explains Tolkien’s brilliance in including the character.
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“Heed no nightly noises! for nothing passes door and window here save moonlight and starlight and the wind off the hill-top.”
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@PinkRangerLB They even changed the name from Withywindle Heights
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Wuthering Heights (2026) is NOT a faithful adaptation of the book, I mean they completely cut out Tom Bombadil
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I loved the Tom Bombadil scene. It was interesting that he picked up the One Ring and laughed and handed it back. Nature doesn’t care about the powers of trying to rule this world. Also, the following barrow scene with Bombadil coming to the rescue was good too. Far from boring.
Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙♀️@SketchesbyBoze
The reason today’s readers find the Tom Bombadil scenes in LOTR (and much of English poetry) boring is because they’ve never encountered willows, nightingales, starlings. Your life would be enriched if you knew more about birds and woods and less about Clavicular and mogging.
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Reading LOTR with the kids update. They LOVE Tom Bombadil. They wanted to know who he is.
Me:
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
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Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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Merry Christmas, my fellow nerds! Enjoy this first ever Christmas card from NOTR, illustrated by Ralph Damiani of Gandalf, Tom, and Goldberry enjoying Yule-tide in the Old Forest.
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Maybe Jackson was right to scrap Tom from the movies, he doesn't even make sense canonically
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