/lit/ - Literature

>implying that pseudo sci-fi shit will ever compare to the works of Tolkien

Tom bombadil

How are you supposed to finish reading Lord of the Rings if the chapters with Tom Bombadil or so fucking insufferable? This is some of the worst shit I've ever read.

Hey /lit/ what's some good reads on ascetic Christianity, the rejection of material values and such things?

submitted to TAR yet, /lit/?

Why didn't Tom Bombadil just waltz into Mordor and shit on Sauron?

thoughts?
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>>3695609
That doesn't change the fact that they were only popular because they were adapted into movie form.
A lot of the people had never even heard of pic related, they never read the books.

>>3343643
Do you even Tom Bombadil?

Do people who don't have blue coats and yellow boots seriously try to say that Tom Bombadil isn't the greatest character ever?

Come back and say that shit when you have a blue coat and yellow boots.

Tom Bombadil's nature is actually rather obvious, at least in retrospect having stumbled upon it. Forget all the other theories you've heard, because here's the reality:

Tom is Tolkein's resonant echo of the creation of Adam, prior to his fall from grace in the Garden of Eden.

What say you?

he's kinda a faggoty dude that babbles a lot

Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!

Seriously, this shit is fucking gay as fuck. Who reads this fucking garbage?

>>2337746
I just finished.
They take either:
a 30% fee from the final sale
as well as about 5 cents per book for transferal fees

-or-

they take 65% of the final sale in exchange for waiving the transferal fee and offering your work to a wider global audience.

was Tom Bombadil a Maiar?

and why do some people think he is Eru when he obviously isn't, seriously

HEY HO MERRY OH

Alright, besides the fact that he didn't give two shits about anything not related to boning his wife and singing to various flora and fauna, why didn't Tom Bombadil help destroy Sauron?

Or was it really all just because he didn't give a fuck?

Try your best to prove the following statement wrong:

"All successful fantasy sagas are just rehash of the same old ideas and conventions because people who read fantasy literature are afraid to leave their comfort zone."

what did you guys think of the hobbit and how did it match up to the lotr series as a whole for you?

>>1890847
2011
>calling women whores
>not calling them vacuous smegma receptacles

fantasy > scifi

Morgoth vs Tom Bombadil

Who win?

>>1772189
can you fault a man for loving nature?

Lately I've found myself speaking sort of like Tom Bombadil. I answer the phone with, "Hey diddle-diddle, fiddled-do!" I answer questions with, "Orkey dorkey, fiddle-dee!" I wander around the house mumbling, "Fiddle-dum fiddle-do, ho diddly-fo!"

What the fuck is wrong with me, /lit/?