No one can be told why Tom Bombadil is in the book: you have to see it for yourself.
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on reflection a valuable thing i think Bombadil does is complicate the setting in a way that relates it more strongly to the fairy tale tradition, which is probably why awful nerds hate him, it's a counteragent to the technicalization that characterizes Tolkien-derivative work
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Heh. This I like. Have you read "The Deed of Paksennarion?
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hunh. i... think i might have?
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Paksennarion starts out as mundane as can be. She basically bullies the Gods into giving her the power to protect others. ("How do you bully a God?" "Carefully. Very carefully.") But the world becomes as magical as she is willing to be. As she grows, the world expands.
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This is sort of the opposite of Middle-Earth in general but very like the journeys of the Hobbits. It's not so flowery as Middle-Earth (I mean, Tolkien literally wrote dictionaries) but it is as close as I think I've read to the spirit of it.
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sounds pretty delightful, i wonder if the title is familiar because i've read it or because somebody has told me about it before
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It's one of my favorites, along with the Belgariad/Malloreon. I used to be into Shannara, but it's a little too emo for me now. *shrug* The chicks were hot in the TV adaptation, though. Heck, the elf-boy was hot.
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Has nothing to do with home. The Shire is vulnerable, and in fact it falls: it must be redeemed. That's a separate metaphor, something something doing right ain't got no end something. Bombadil is incorruptible. Bombadil shows there are things *beyond* the reach of Sauron.
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