Tolkien claimed LOTR was "a fundamentally religious & Catholic work"

[astro]

@Chronos

OK, I’m not remembering that one. I’ll have to look it up when I get home. Still, though, there are enough people whose thoughts Tolkien doesn’t enter, that it hardly seems remarkable that Bombadil is one of them. And even if it were significant, all it would show is that Tom is enigmatic, which I don’t think anyone needs to be told.

And we don’t see much of Arwen, but if the comparisons to Luthien are accurate, I don’t think we need to question Aragorn’s taste. Besides, he couldn’t have any woman, elf or human, until his coronation, anyway.

So he was an 88 year old virgin?

[Skald_the_Rhymer]

@astro

So he was an 88 year old virgin?

You have just made me imagine Aragorn son of Arathorn, Ellessar Telcontar, King of Reunited Kingdom, getting his chest waxed.

You will pay for this.