[ SECRET POST #4317 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4317 ⌋

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Comments

Why don't people like Tom Bombadil?

[(Anonymous)]

I enjoyed this character. I don't really understand why so many folks don't like him...It'd be nice to hear why!

Re: Why don't people like Tom Bombadil?

[(Anonymous)]

- Weird
- Sings bad poetry
- Nothing to do with the plot

Re: Why don't people like Tom Bombadil?

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve got nothing against him, but he doesn’t translate to film well. The problem with Tom is that he isn’t part of the same story as the other characters. He isn’t even part of the same literary tradition. He’s basically pulling our mains into a crossover.

That’s kind of cool, but it does grind the main storyline to a halt fairly early in the action. And when you’re dealing with a story that is already fairy leisurely paced, that’s a problem, at least in a movie. I actually do think that clever writers could successfully include Tom if they were working in a miniseries format.

Re: Why don't people like Tom Bombadil?

[(Anonymous)]

When I first read LotR, I hit the Tom Bombadil part and everything came screeching to a halt. I got so bored and irritated with that section that I put the book down and didn't pick it up again FOR A YEAR. In the end, I skipped over his scenes and finished the book, then went back and read the Bombadil section when I was no longer concerned with the main story. It's not just in movie format that Bombadil screws over the momentum of the plot.

Re: Why don't people like Tom Bombadil?

[tree_and_leaf]

I'm not wild about Bombadil himself - it's the singing, even though on the whole I quite like Tolkien's poetry -, but if you cut him you lose the creepy weirdness of the Old Forest and the Barrow Downs (which is possibly the scariest scene in the whole damn trilogy), so I am massively pro keeping him over all.