(September 8, 2018 at 1:51 pm)Wololo Wrote:Tom Bombadil is not God, or his avatar. Tolkien explicitly states this in an interview somewhere.(September 8, 2018 at 9:57 am)ignoramus Wrote: But only one group knows it's fiction ... But I won't say who ...
Gandalf is real!
Tom Bombadil, on the other hand...
He's supposed to be an enigma, old as time. Tolkein outright refused to say what he was, only a few things that he wasn't. I figure he maybe represents nature? But as a kid when I first read LOTR and also The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, I too assumed he was God (or his avatar, though I didn't know that word at the time).
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
