Discussion Prompt

[artificialent]

Alright. Let's get talking.

I've never been great at starting conversations, but I do know it helps to have something to talk about. So for all those who want to chat, feel free to jump in! I may even end up posting something like this regularly, who knows.

What do you folks think about Tom Bombadil?
(What the elf-mongering fuck is Tom Bombadil?)

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[artabria]

Had to look who Tinfang was. Turns out it's one of those cases of "Tolkien never really finished the Silmarillion", XD

If you want to search the bit about Tom Bombadil in the Council of Elrond, it's toward the end of the chapter "The Ring goes South", after everyone has told their stories. I have the book in front of me right now and, wow, I have to do a re-reading of these books. My edition is in Spanish, so it probablt won't be what's in your book, but:

"I think in the end, if everything else is conquered, Bombadil will also fall, the Last, as he was the First, and then the night shall come."

That's a quote from Glorfindel. I'm guessing "the First" is perhaps a reference to his arrival before any other Ainur?

Elrond calls him Iarwain Ben-adar, the Eldest and Fatherless. Fatherless could be seen as he being an Ainur, but Eldest? Melkor was supposed to be the eldest Ainur, if I remember correctly. Someone needs to bring back Tolkien from the dead and make him finish the Silmarillion, @_@

[artificialent]

I know, right? *sigh*
I suppose it is rather nice having such a broad range to interpret stuff, though