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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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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