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    1. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Apr 26
      Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot

      No one can be told why Tom Bombadil is in the book: you have to see it for yourself.

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    2. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Apr 26
      Replying to @legalinspire @chaosprime @eigenrobot

      But Father Christmas is in TLTWATW to show that our worlds share myths and hint hint, Aslan is Jesus. Sooooooometimes Clive was a little heavy-handed with the metaphors, shocking as that may be.

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    3. Chaos‏ @chaosprime Apr 26
      Replying to @legalinspire @eigenrobot

      well, i mean, Tom Bombadil is obviously Eru Ilúvatar, aka God nothing about the situation has yet revealed to me why God needs to show up though

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    4. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Apr 27
      Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot

      Wrong. I see this allegation a lot and it absolutely baffles me. Tolkien would have viewed God acting like Bombadil as sacrilegious.

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    5. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Apr 27
      Replying to @legalinspire @chaosprime @eigenrobot

      Bombadil does not *need* to be in the book for plot reasons. Merry could have gotten his barrow-sword some other way, or gotten some other magic sword. It’s a super cool story hook that he has a sword made by the Witch-King's mortal enemies, but whatever.

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    6. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Apr 27
      Replying to @legalinspire @chaosprime @eigenrobot

      Bombadil is in the book to show the Hobbits, and the reader by extension, two things. First, that power without responsibility for others is ultimately meaningless. The one person who can safely hold the Ring can’t be trusted with it because he is not responsible enough.

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    7. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Apr 27
      Replying to @legalinspire @chaosprime @eigenrobot

      Yes, it’s a Spider-Man gambit. But that’s the lesser of the two reasons. The other one is far more important.

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    8. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Apr 27
      Replying to @legalinspire @chaosprime @eigenrobot

      Frodo meets basically what is left of the Gods in Middle-Earth. Demi-Gods, at least. Gandalf the Maia. Galadriel the Light-Elf. Elrond, son of Eärendil the Blessed. Aragorn, heir of Númenor and descendent of Lúthien. They are all powerless before the evil of the One Ring.

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    9. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Apr 27
      Replying to @legalinspire @chaosprime @eigenrobot

      But this funny little old man can disregard it entirely. It has no power over him whatsoever. Standing before him in a bright blue coat and yellow boots is proof that the Ring is NOT all-powerful. That there are other powers in this world than Sauron and darkness.

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    10. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Apr 27
      Replying to @legalinspire @chaosprime @eigenrobot

      He needs to see that. He needs to know it. It may not come up a lot specifically, but under it all, until his own fall into darkness, he has that to hang on to. Sauron is mighty, but he is NOT the God of this world, and his works have limits.

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      Chaos‏ @chaosprime Apr 27
      Replying to @legalinspire @eigenrobot

      okay. i basically considered that and discarded it because it's almost exactly the same narrative function the Shire fulfills. maybe it's important that there be things that are not-home but still homey, idk

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        2. Chaos‏ @chaosprime Apr 27
          Replying to @chaosprime @legalinspire @eigenrobot

          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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        3. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Apr 27
          Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot

          Heh. This I like. Have you read "The Deed of Paksennarion?

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        4. Chaos‏ @chaosprime Apr 27
          Replying to @legalinspire @eigenrobot

          hunh. i... think i might have?

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        5. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Apr 27
          Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot

          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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        6. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Apr 27
          Replying to @legalinspire @chaosprime @eigenrobot

          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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        7. Chaos‏ @chaosprime Apr 27
          Replying to @legalinspire @eigenrobot

          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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        8. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Apr 27
          Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot

          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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        1. Marc Whipple - Legal Inspiration!‏ @legalinspire Apr 27
          Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot

          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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