i hope i figure it out someday
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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that's what I got in my many readings. Bombadil is the proof that Sauron's power is limited and fallible in exactly the same way as all those other demigods. He's there to show the reader early on that despite how bleak things look it's not a hopeless journey and they can win.
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