The Tom Bombadil chapters are unironically some of the best chapters in all of Lord Of The Rings. I just finished rereading "In the House of Tom Bombadil," and I'm struck by how literally magical it feels to spend time with Tom in the text. The constant interweaving between talk and song, the movement of talk of the land and the Old Forest and how caught up Tom is with it, the sense that in Tom's house the hobbits are somehow intimately caught up and entirely separate from all of time and reality. The long talk Tom has with them as it rains is some of the best writing in all of Tolkien and it entrances you to read it.
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People act like every word Tolkien wrote is sacrosanct but the Tom Bombadil parts of Fellowship really feel like he wrote them early on when LOTR still had the same tone as The Hobbit
Bro really should have revised those 3 chapters before publishing
Filtered.
I named my son Tom Bombadil
Why does everyone circlejerk Tolkien so much? He's not even the best fantasy author let alone the best fiction author. Yeah he used language in certain talented ways but a lot of his tone, characterisation, and worldbuilding is weak. But no fans can't just say some part is weak, actually it's 2deep4u genius.
>He's not even the best fantasy author
He is.
~ c o m f y ~
it just means you have good taste
I had the same feeling
Agree
They feel like such an important part of the book although I understand why they get left out of adaptations
I'm not a fan of Bombadil but I find interesting the contrast between Tom's home and his surroundings. There's a living forest that rearranges itself so you get stuck and a laughing tree eats you, and also a giant cemetery with ghosts that kidnap you into a tomb to then kill you in your sleep. All this shit sandwiching jolly ol' Bombadil's cozy cottage.
On the subject of LOTR chapters, I read "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields" recently. Am I the only one who found it rushed with everything happening so quick? Is that supposed to be the point?
Tombom arc is definitely great fairy story, I adore that aspect as well. His firsthand experience of ancient history is tantalising: the folks of the divided three kingdoms, and even ents.
However, most one-time readers, or even the type of long-time fans who foolishly ignore the songs,
miss out on the point that it's a pivotal moment for the fellowship, a real turning point. The Tombom arc is a pebble in the lake whose ripples echo across the rest of the book - not only forward but even backward. Tolkien employs this echo or repetition of themes throughout all his work. Next time you read the Tombom arc, keep this in mind. You'll appreciate it a lot more.
>The Tombom arc is a pebble in the lake whose ripples echo across the rest of the book
I cannot take it anymore. All mentions of Tolkien should be expressly forbidden, subject to a permanent ban if the culprit reoffends. I don’t know where these people came from but they must leave and never return unless reformed.
Maybe we need a Tolkien board then not to disturb whatever circlejerk is going on here
Last I checked, Tolkien's books were literature
>‘Fair lady!’ said Frodo again after a while. ‘Tell me, if my asking does not seem foolish, who is Tom Bombadil?’
>‘He is,’ said Goldberry, staying her swift movements and smiling.
>Frodo looked at her questioningly. ‘He is, as you have seen him,’ she said in answer to his look. ‘He is the Master of wood, water, and hill.’
>‘Then all this strange land belongs to him?’
>‘No indeed!’ she answered, and her smile faded. ‘That would indeed be a burden,’ she added in a low voice, as if to herself. ‘The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each to themselves. Tom Bombadil is the Master. No one has ever caught old Tom walking in the forest, wading in the water, leaping on the hill-tops under light and shadow. He has no fear. Tom Bombadil is master.’
Tolkien's underrated as a mystic. But how do you understand certain elements of his stories if not through a mystical lens, where things may be real and true in more than one sense?
you can't, that's why materialists all get filtered