Why wasn't he in the kino? And furthermore who is this mysterious character anyway?

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In my headcannon he was one of the maiar who lived in middle earth back in the days of the big lamps

He was a character tolkien made even before the hobbit, i think. Based on a toy his kids had. He probably only included him in lotr for the lulz and didn't intend to give him a backstory

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>Based on a toy his kids had
Makes a lot more sense now, especially the singsong talk. It's pretty early on in the story too, so would've been among the earliest things written with the way he wrote. More in line with the Hobbit than the later parts of the book.

he was too based

K I N O

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did Tom Bombadil take DMT?

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Probably an Ainur. He's too ancient to be a Maia and the Ring had no effect on him.

Wh*te "people" music

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>Big adventure begins
>Let's pause to hang with this dildo of the forest

Better question is,.. How strong is this mofo?

bombadil is clearly sauron, at least a reflection of him

Different ball park man. Bombadil is playing cricket while the rest of the world is playing soccer.

If you want an solid explanation for him, he's a being that came from the void, very much like Ungoliant. It can be surmised that the void harbors beings of all kinds, not just conventionally evil ones. Of Tom's powerlevel I can't say, but to give perspective, Ungoliant was at a point stronger than Morgoth, the "fallen angel". Stronger than Iluvatar? No, because he's the one inhabiting her realm after all.

i remember something in the books about how they gave him the ring for a minute and he handled it like a toy

>km-515.livejournal.com/1042.html

>By his own account (and by Elrond’s surprisingly sketchy knowledge) Bombadil has lived in the Old Forest since before the hobbits came to the Shire. Since before Elrond was born. Since the earliest days of the First Age.

>And yet no hobbit has ever heard of him.

>The guise in which Bombadil appears to Frodo and his companions is much like a hobbit writ large. He loves food and songs and nonsense rhymes and drink and company. Any hobbit who saw such a person would tell tales of him. Any hobbit who was rescued by Tom would sing songs about him and tell everyone else. Yet Merry – who knows all the history of Buckland and has ventured into the Old Forest many times – has never heard of Tom Bombadil. Frodo and Sam – avid readers of old Bilbo’s lore – have no idea that any such being exists, until he appears to them. All the hobbits of the Shire think of the Old Forest as a place of horror – not as the abode of a jolly fat man who is surprisingly generous with his food.

>If Bombadil has indeed lived in the Old Forest all this time – in a house less than twenty miles from Buckland – then it stands to reason that he has never appeared to a single hobbit traveller before, and has certainly never rescued one from death. In the 1400 years since the Shire was settled.

>What do we know about Tom Bombadil? He is not what he seems.

>he is insinuated to have been the first living creature to inhabit Arda, having witnessed the emergence of the forests and the rain. Tom also claims to have lived in the west before the Elves came and the tides were folded.
>Proclaimed to be "the oldest in existence," Tom Bombadil was apparently immortal and possesses a range of enigmatic powers able to give full control over his domains
>There are many theories of his origins, such as of him being in truth a Maia, a man, Ilúvatar himself, or even the reader, though more on this can be found elsewhere (see below)
lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_Bombadil
He's basically God even if he isn't Ilúvatar

Gandalf basically says that the Ring has no power over him but can't be trusted to carry it to Mordor because Tom will misplace it due to not perceiving the Ring's importance

He's a pointless character

Tom Bombadil is a fucking pointless character and him being left out was entirely justified

>bombadilfags will dispute this

He'd probably weat it like a cock ring and lose it up his wife's ass.

nice colorful imagination ya got there. it's definitely possible sure

How many FUCKING times do we have to have this FUCKING THREAD, am I going fucking crazy or are you just a retards???? FUCK OFF!!!!

I thought his power was tied to his forest?

Didn't the narrator imply he knew farmer maggot? Might be wrong; haven't read the book in years

>Now, in his conversation with Frodo, Bombadil implies (but avoids directly stating) that he had heard of their coming from Farmer Maggot and from Gildor’s elves (both of whom Frodo had recently described). But that also makes no sense. Maggot lives west of the Brandywine, remained there when Frodo left, and never even knew that Frodo would be leaving the Shire. And if Elrond knows nothing of Bombadil, how can he be a friend of Gildor’s?