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But his boots are supposed to be YELLOW, damn it! Not tan!

I thought you said his boobs were supposed to be yelling when I scrolled by. I was disappointed when I checked the image.

Now that's a Tom Bombadil I want to see.

I agree that he would not have worked in the movies at all

I think that's kind of why I prefer the books though (not specifically the Bombadil stuff, but the fact that they can have things like that in them)

Agreed. And all the poetry! Some of it is better than others, but that's what really stood out to me when I reread LOTR in 2012; that like every third chapter has some kind of poem or song in it.

Yes. Chapter 1: plot. Chapter 2: Poetry and singing. Chapter 3: Descriptions of plants and landscapes. (repeat as necessary until book ends)

Yeah...

And it owns

I read the books for the first time last month, and it felt like I was reading a musical in book form.

but op hes such a sexy bi goffik guy form da PAST n i hav 2 get him 2 fal in luv wif me so volximort wont b evil!!!! STUP FLAMINH!!!1111

...what

am I missing something

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6829556/11/My-Immortal

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Yes

Tom Bombadil is in fact the sexiest Gothic guy

I am legit dying here.

lol I get it

There is no way that fic wasn't trolling. Who's even heard of Tom Bombadil unless they've read those books?

Makes me want to re-read it all over again. Have to get my handkerchief ready for the tears of laughter.

I agree with this secret.

Tom's so long-winded that I see why they cut him out, but still. Six hours of Hobbit movie and no Tom? :(

He's probably the character that's most lifted straight from British myth and legend, though - the Green Man of the Wood. So I see why he doesn't fit the rest of the high fantasy story.

I will always always always love the theory that the bombadil episode is the result of a textual corruption of the red book of whatsit in which a completely unrelated myth was flanged in there and added willy nilly

Tom Bombadil freaks me out. If I met him in a dark alley he'd get a face full of pepper spray.

TBH, I don't care for Tom Bombadil and agree he doesn't fit the mood of the LOTR films and have a whole list of characters I'd rather see in the Hobbit, but I'd put up with him if it meant we got the barrow-wights sequence. I'm devastated it was never filmed.

I am curious to see how you'd fit Bombadil into the Hobbit films, though.

They're just tsundere.

I agree he wouldn't have fit into the LOTR movies, but The Hobbit was such a tangled mess of canon and filler, I can't see why he couldn't have been included. Sorry, OP.

Am I the only one thinking that Hobbit-era Bilbo and Tom Bombadil would have been a hilariously bizarre combination? Would you shove Tom into the beginning of the trilogy or the end?

"Yes, yes. A ring a ding dillo to you as well. Now, if you don't have anything useful to add to this discussion, be a good bright-booted fellow and pass around some of whatever it is you've been smoking."

Tolkien made up Tom Bombadil YEARS before he wrote the Hobbit in order to entertain his kids, so his appearance in Fellowship was sort of a family in-joke. Also, Bombadil is more of a fairy tale character than a fantasy character so he belongs in a different genre. (There are differences between fairy tales and fantasy stories. It'd take too long for me to write them all out, read Joseph Campbell.)

That's kind of why I liked Radagast talking to hedgegogs, it was weird and not strictly necessary but in a Tolkien way, unlike all the other stuff they've added.

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