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>Barges into the narrative.
>Sings a song about how he's older than the world.
>Puts on and takes off the Ring with no effect.
>Refuses to elaborate.
>Leaves.
My uncle who lent young me his copy of LOTR advised me to skip the Tom Bombadil chapters entirely, it was good advice.
> overlooked by a huge swathe of readers I think there is no one who read LoTR and ignored Tom Bombadil. If anything, they give him too much importance.
I don't recall him having any impact on the story. The movie didn't lose anything by omitting the detour. To me it's like hedonistic gods in Buddhism--all powerful but not practically consequential to humans. I thought it was going say Samwise.
> overlooked by a huge swathe of readers I think there is no one who read LoTR and ignored Tom Bombadil. If anything, they give him too much importance.
I don't recall him having any impact on the story. The movie didn't lose anything by omitting the detour. To me it's like hedonistic gods in Buddhism--all powerful but not practically consequential to humans. I thought it was going say Samwise.
> overlooked by a huge swathe of readers I think there is no one who read LoTR and ignored Tom Bombadil. If anything, they give him too much importance.
I don't recall him having any impact on the story. The movie didn't lose anything by omitting the detour. To me it's like hedonistic gods in Buddhism--all powerful but not practically consequential to humans. I thought it was going say Samwise.
Well, he did rescue the hobbits from the Barrow Downs, and gave Merry Brandybuck one of the swords of Westernesse with which Merry ultimately wounded the Lord of the Nazgûl and thus permitted Eowyn to slay him in the battle of the Pelennor Fields...