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	Tom Bombadil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is clear, though, that Bombadil was not in Tolkien's conception part of Middle-earth from the start; he was invented in honour of a Dutch doll belonging to his children, to whom Tolkien told stories about Tom Bombadil.
		Tom Bombadil was, however, part of The Lord of the Rings from the earliest drafts.
		Bombadil could be part of the Music of the Ainur and that would explain why he was there in the beginning, but if he was indeed part of the music, it is not said why he exists.
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	The Grey Havens - Else: Who or what was Tom Bombadil?
		That fragment was in turn the basis for the poem "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", published in 1933, which also introduced Goldberry, the barrow wights, and Old Man Willow (the poem was the source of the events in Chapters 6 through 8 of Book I).
		Tolkien introduced Tom into The Lord of the Rings at a very early stage, when he still thought of it as a sequel to the The Hobbit, as opposed to the The Silmarillion (the tone was changed during the first chapters of The Lord of the Rings).
		Tom fit the original (slightly childish) tone of the early chapters (which resembled that of the The Hobbit), but as the story progressed it became higher in tone and darker in nature.
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	Essay: Who is Tom Bombadil?
		Tom's inability to separate song from his other activities, speaking, walking, working, suggests that it is very fundamental to his being in a profound way that distinguishes him from all other beings encountered in the trilogy.
		Although this interpretation of Tom's singing is inconsistent with the general claim that Tom is nonrational, it is not inconsistent with Tolkien's own characterization of Tom in two letters in 1954, in which Tom is associated with the pure scientific study of nature.
		Tom is immune to the influence of the ring not because of his high moral character, but because he is not capable of having a moral character at all.
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	The Adventures of Tom Bombadil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is a collection of poetry by J.
		The book contains 16 poems, only two of which deal with Tom Bombadil, a character who is most famous for his encounter with Frodo Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume in Tolkien's best-selling The Lord of the Rings.
		Tom Bombadil can best be seen as a small, poetic venture into Tolkien's imagination.
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	Other Beings of Middle-earth
		Tom lived in a house on the side of a hill between the Old Forest and the Barrow-downs.
		Tom did not often cross the borders of his country, though he had been to visit Farmer Maggot in the Shire and he was acquainted with Barliman Butterbur at the Prancing Pony in Bree.
		Tom might take the Ring if asked, but he would not understand the need to guard it safely, nor would he be able to withstand an assault on his land by Sauron.
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	Tom Bombadil
		Another interpretation is that Bombadil is so intertwined with the lands and forests--to the point that he may be the very embodiment of these things as a nature spirit or otherwise--that by destroying the "nature" in which he resides, Sauron would in effect be destroying Bombadil.
		Bombadil may have absolute power within the role he has been allotted, but it is a limited role that is not unaffected by other forces, just as in the natural world.
		Bombadil's waning earthly role is similar to Tolkien's view of the dwindling countryside and forests of England; and in effect, his fear of a certain natural mortality over which the affected forests and valleys, unconcerned as they are over the daily lives of humans, have no control.
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	The Barrow-Downs
		Many songs sung Tom Bombadil, and many stories he told the hobbits, most from times long gone, for Tom said he has been since the beginning of time, and about the ways of nature.
		Bombadil was soon left out of the specualtions of the Council of {137}Elrond^ about him, as he would not care about events outside his realm, and would pay the Ring any attention, not even to destroy it.
		Some of the adventures Bombadil has in the likewise named collection of poems entitled 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil' are similar to those in LOTR, i.e.
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	Tom Bombadil
		Tom Bombadil is an ancient being, that is known in many parts of Middle-earth, by many names and in different aspects.
		Bombadil might have the power to keep the One Ring safe in his realm, as Elronds chief counsellor Erestor suggested, but he is too light-hearted for such a task (LOTR I, 278f).
		ATB: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil; in: The Tolkien Reader, New York (Ballantine) 1966.
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	J. R. R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bombadil is master, not owner, and so he both lives in peace with the creatures of the wood and also escapes harm or subjection to them.
		Tom's loneliness is evident in "Bombadil Goes Boating," and his status as something wholly other is evident by the arrows he receives in his hat -- which he prefers to consider the hobbits' way of teasing him as the merry animals do.
		Bombadil's nonsense singing is not any stranger that the beebop of popular music or the "tra-la-la" of a children's skipping song (and Tom is both older and younger than everyone else in the tale).
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	Encyclopedia of Arda: Tom Bombadil
		Tom was a creature of contradictions, one moment defeating ancient forces with hardly an effort, the next capering and singing nonsensical songs.
		Tom's powers are apparently limitless, at least within his own domain, and this has led a lot of people of suggest that he might be none other than Eru Ilúvatar himself.
		In his preface to The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Tolkien tells us that Tom's name is 'Bucklandish in form', and suggests that it was given to him by the Hobbits of that region.
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		Within the Tolkien household Tom Bombadil was originally a Dutch doll belonging to one of Tolkien's children (Carpenter, Tolkien, p.
		Ruth S. Noel in The Mythology of Middle-earth, published in 1977, in perhaps the longest and most elaborate discussion of him, begins with the remark that "Tom Bombadil is a character like Puck or Pan, a nature god in diminished form, half humorous, half divine" (p.
		Lokdell eventually concludes that Tom is an anomaly: "Although I find him an anomalous creation, I can make shift to account for him theologically - but only with the uneasy feeling that making shift is all that I am doing (p.
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	What is Tom Bombadil: Introduction and Background
		While The Adventures of Tom Bombadil was published while Tolkien was alive, its two poems about Tom are not trustworthy guides to his nature: the book's Preface says that their Bucklandish authors had "little understanding of his powers" and that the first poem is "made up of various hobbit-versions of legends concerning Bombadil".
		Bombadil was introduced into the story before its relationship to the greater mythology was entirely established, so his place in the Silmarillion cosmology may have changed enormously between the first and final drafts.
		Some have suggested that Tom is an insertion of Tolkien himself into the tale, but we are interested primarily in "story internal" explanations: even if Tom were meant to represent Tolkien himself, our interest is in how he fits into Middle-earth.
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	Who was Tom Bombadil and when did he enter Middle earth? - Q&A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tom Bombadil was the oldest being in middle-earth along with TreeBeard.
		JRR Tolkien created Tom as a founding father of middle-earth much as Aule was a father of the people of middle earth.
		Tom Bombadil was actually inspired by one of Tolkien`s sons(can`t remember his name now) doll.But I suppose everyone knows this and I can`t tell you anything new.Anyway,I find it interesting that Arthaxerxes has the same feather on his hat as Tom does.
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	The Annotated LOTR: In the House of Tom Bombadil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Annotated LOTR: In the House of Tom Bombadil
		So Tom Bombadil is a natural pacifist, a pure 'scientist' who has no fear because of his knowledge of the Songs that control the perils within 'his' Land.
		I thought Tom Bombadil dreadful - but worse still was the announcer's preliminary remarks that Goldberry was his daughter (!) and that Willowman was an ally of Mordor (!!).
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	Web Tolkien: Tolkien's Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In The Chronicle of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton, 4 (1934), pp.
		Later revised and printed in The Lord of the Rings, Book One, Chapter 12 and as "The Stone Troll" in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
		This poem was later further revised and printed as "The Hoard" in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
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	Tom Bombadil? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The reasoning here is plain: given the Middle-earth cast of characters as we know it, this is the most convenient pigeonhole in which to place him (and Goldberry as well) (most of the other individuals in LotR with "mysterious" origins: Gandalf, Sauron, Wizards, and Balrogs did in fact turn out to be Maiar).
		This notion received indirect support from Tolkien himself: "As a story, I think it is good that there should be a lot of things unexplained (especially if an explanation actually exists);...
		Tom represented "Botany and Zoology (as sciences) and Poetry as opposed to Cattle-breeding and Agriculture and practicality." (Letters, p.
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	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Who is Goldberry? Adventures of Tom?
		Tom found Goldberry by the river, and obviously Goldberry's been around awhile - so is she a Maiar just the same?
		Of the women in Tolkien's book, she must be fairly powerful/knowledgeable to be associated with Tom..
		The doll had all of Tom's get-up, but it got lost or something, so Tolkien decided to make it into a story to cheer him up.
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		Who was Tom Bombodil Found an interesting essay on this subject.
		Declaring Tom to be the "least successful creation" in the trilogy, he continues: Standing alone, he would be a nature spirit....
		174) As the exemplification of pure science, Tom could hardly be nonrational.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Tales from the Perilous Realm: "Farmer Giles of Ham", "Leaf by Niggle", ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I have to say that the poems on Tom Bombadil were disappointing.
		In this slim volume is: "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil," a collection of poems.
		Some focus on the weird and wonderful Tom himself, and some are poems that are (or might be) in Middle-Earth, like the creepy "Mewlips," the sweet "Princess Mee," and melancholy "Last Ship." There is "Leaf By Niggle," the tale of a painter straining to live up to his hopes.
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	Amazon.com: Books: The Tolkien Reader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There is a long poem called "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil," written in the style and meter of his songs about himself in LOTR, when he meets the hobbits.
		The Adventures of Tom Bombadil are actually a collection of Tolkien's poems, and only a couple of them are actually about Tom Bombadil.
		The Adventures of Tom Bombadil gives little insight into the mysterious character that we briefly encounter in the first novel in the Rings series, The Fellowship of the Ring.
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	TheOneRing.net™ \| Barliman's Chat Room \| The Hall of Fire \| Log 05/12/2001 : FOTR Chapter 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn.
		Tom bombadil is the master" goldberry to the hobbits
		When he got as far as Bombadil he would have thought about whether to leave him in, and added in the dreams to make that foreshadowing thing happen.
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	Internet Book List :: Book Information: Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book, the
		Book Information: Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book, the
		Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book, the (1962) [collection]
		This adventure book tells of Tom's encounters with the River-woman's beautiful daughter, Old Man Willow, the Badger-folk, the ghostly Barrowwight, a lovely princess, trolls, dwarves, and legendary beasts.
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	Lord of the Rings Essay: Who is Tom Bombadil
		Lord of the Rings Essay: Who is Tom Bombadil
		Top image of Tom Bombadil: Tim & Greg Hildebrandt
		This site is maintained and updated by fans of The Lord of the Rings, and is in no way affiliated with Tolkien Enterprises or the Tolkien Estate.
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	Writers of Rohan: The Tolkien Library - The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
		Authorship of particular poems is variously attributed directly to named Hobbits, along with suggested lineages that go back even to Gondor.
		The first two poems are about Tom Bombadil and his many adventures, including his wooing of Goldberry.
		Thereafter the subject matter is highly varied: The Man in the Moon, Bilbo's trolls, Sam's oliphaunt, a dragon's hoard, and even cats.
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	The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
		Tom caught a beechen leaf in the Forest falling.
		Tom slumped along the road, as the light was failing.
		Tom did a hornpipe when he was not quaffing,
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	Find in a Library: The adventures of Tom Bombadil, and other verses from the red book.
		Find in a Library: The adventures of Tom Bombadil, and other verses from the red book.
		The adventures of Tom Bombadil, and other verses from the red book.
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	Adventures of Tom Bombadil
		Wise old Bombadil, he was a wary fellow;
		But one day Tom, he went and caught the River-daughter,
		Well, when I sing it, the music just seems to come out of nowhere.
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