(March 21, 2023 at 12:58 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(March 20, 2023 at 8:19 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Fills in some of those puzzling gaps in the theatrical version.
And yet it doesn’t answer the most puzzling gap: Where is Bombadil?? Arguably the most powerful Being in Area, without whom Sauron would have recovered the Ring, and he isn’t even mentioned, let alone seen.
Boru
They couldn't leave the ring with Bombadil because he didn't care about it. He would have been an unwise custodian. Dead end there, so why bother?