(September 9, 2018 at 4:54 am)Aroura Wrote:(September 8, 2018 at 1:51 pm)Wololo Wrote: Gandalf is real!Tom Bombadil is not God, or his avatar. Tolkien explicitly states this in an interview somewhere.
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).
My own theory, with admittedly nothing to support it, is that Bombadil was a Vala 'gone native'.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
