[ SECRET POST #2371 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2371 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Am I the only one who is glad Tom Bombadil was cut? I nearly stopped reading FotR the first time when I got to his part. As it was, it took me months to pick up the book again and I only got back into it by skipping all of Tom's scenes and going back to read them after I was done with the whole trilogy.

[dinogrrl]

Most people I've talked to are glad Tom Bombadil isn't in the movie. I for one could not take him seriously at all in the book.

[elaminator]

I am and I like him. He's an interesting character but I don't see how they could've fit him into the film. Even fitting him into the extended version would've been difficult and probably felt out of place.

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. Tom has been a bit too ridiculous for me and I think the whole Old Forest sequence are the biggest indicators that Tolkien started LOTR not really knowing what he was doing with it and that it was originally intended to be a children's book like The Hobbit. I do miss the whole barrow-wight sequence though - that would have been amazing to see on-film.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked the section, but just not as part of the book. If it had been in an anthology like "The Tales of Frodo Baggins Before His Big Adventure" or something like that then I'd have loved it. Just not as part of LotR, IYSWIM?

[asecretchord]

Yes, precisely. The barrow-wight scene would have rocked and was ever so much better than, "Here, Frodo, have a knife." The blades found in the barrow had a history and the flashbacks to the first age would have been awesome.

[(Anonymous)]

No. I can get super defensive of LOTR at times, but Bombadil is the fucking worst. When friends ask if the books are worth reading I always pause because of him.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sad. Seriously, he's not important to the narrative at all. And is probably only important in the Silmarillion, which i have not read.

[(Anonymous)]

That is an interesting yet wrong theory. Tom Bombadil does not appear in the Silmarillion.

[gabzillaz]

You are not alone. I couldn't stand him.

[(Anonymous)]

No, I like Tom Bombadil but I'm fine with him being cut out. (It's the Scouring of the Shire I'm much more conflicted about...)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a huge Tolkien fan and honestly I agree. Tom was interesting, but he didn't serve any greater purpose in the story. I mean, he doesn't even appear in the Silmarillion or the annexes either if my memory serves me?

[(Anonymous)]

No, I don't believe he did, and his role and nature were always ultimately mysterious.

My favorite Bombadil theory (and honestly the one that makes me like him as a character) is that Bombadil is actually a character from a totally different, unrelated myth that has been interpolated into Lord of the Rings in the process of time. Just a totally unrelated nature spirit myth.

[blind_bard]

This is an awesome theory!

[(Anonymous)]

I like this. I can imagine that he was a popular mythological character who was beloved by all the kids and whom people dressed up as at harvest festivals or whatever and someone thought it would be a good idea to shoehorn him into this epic, so he gets a walk-on appearance that makes no sense but it pleases the crowd.

[(Anonymous)]

Not at all. Cutting Tom Bombadil was a vast improvement. I skip his chapters every time I re-read the books anyway.