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17062714 No.17062714 [Reply] [Original]

What's the general opinion on Tom Bombadil?

>> No.17062724

>>17062714
based, excluding him is one of the main reasons the movies are shite

>> No.17062734

>>17062714
Cheerful fellow, lovely wife, puts bastard trees in their place.
Would visit on my trip/10

>> No.17062739

>>17062714
excellent pseud filter, second only to jar jar binks

>> No.17062741

He's a pretty normal character for Hobbit/LOTR, but just like Radagast it's confusing that he does nothing when shit hits the fan and just chills somewhere.

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>> No.17062761

>>17062714
I wanna fuck his wife. Even just reading about her gets me hard

>> No.17062765

>>17062739
>jar jar binks
the dark sith lord?

>> No.17062769

>>17062765
Reddit

>> No.17062803

>>17062761
this

>> No.17063195

>>17062765
go back

>> No.17063394

He is bombachil.

>> No.17063677

I have absolutely no idea why people say it's a slog to read his chapters they aren't even that long.

>> No.17063689

38 year old virgins: the thread

>> No.17063693

>>17062724
Come on now, the movies are pretty great. Excluding based Tom Bombadil was definitely a mistake, though

>> No.17063704

>>17062714
Bright blue his jacket is and his boots are yellow

>> No.17063706

>>17062714
Utterly based.

>> No.17063720

>>17062714
He makes sense within the text of The Lord of the Rings, and I definitely never saw him as a pointless side story. But adapting a book, and three big books at that, you have to make cuts unfortunately. By the medium of film and how film narratives are written/staged, Tom Bombadil's section would've drastically halted the flow, tone, and run time of the Fellowship of the Ring

>> No.17063837

Hey dol, Merry dol, ring a dong Dillo, Based Tom Bombadill, I shall never outgrow

>> No.17063849

>>17063704
based

>>17063706
based

>>17063837
based

>>17062724
based

>> No.17064343

He is a kidnapper and a rapist. So pretty based in my opinion.

>> No.17064755

>>17062765
Based

>> No.17064770
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>>17062734
>>17062761
I completely forgot about this.
Please remind me with page numbers or direct text.

>>17064343
More on this.

Was I just a too young when I read this at 14?
I don't remember it being so based.

>> No.17064844

>>17063677
Their soul whithers upon encountering poetry.

>> No.17064893

>>17062714
The existence of Tom seems to imply some kind of multiverse theory in the Ring books. It's mentioned he wasn't created along with Middle Earth, the Maia were surprised to find him there, and they consider his power almost infinite or without known limits.

>> No.17064901

>>17062714
Fits the first book perfectly.
Feels out of place in the complete lore thing of it.
Makes sense when you consider the whole work and how it all came together with hobbit strider, and all that stuff.

>> No.17064914

>>17062714
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is an amazing poem, highly recommended for all you Bombadil lovers.

>> No.17064962

I reread LOTR last year and Tom's chapters were actually some of my favorites.

The chapter where all the hobbits are sitting in Tom's house and he's telling them stories, as the rain falls outside and the fire burns, is legitimately fucking incredible. I was awed by that chapter, there's something very powerful about it.