Hey, ho, merry-ding-dol, I don’t care who gets to play him!
Tom Bomba-dill-i-o’s my favorite character of all of them!
If Jackson doesn’t want Old Tom, I’ll write him my own script!
Hey, dol, derry dol, When I learned they left Tom out I flipped!
I wanted to see Tom! And I wanted to see lots of other stuff too. Maybe they should have made six movies instead of three
And, too avoid charges of hijacking this thread with silly poems I just made up (it seemed a Tom-like thing to do) I tend to agree with the Maia theory, too, but not 100%. Tom’s too one-of-a-kind to get lumped into a category.
I’d go with the actual inspiration for Tom Bombadillo-Johnathan Winters.
On one of John's many trips through time and space, he met Tolkien. The two became close friends, and Tolkien wrote John into LOTR. Later, due to quantum uncertainty, Tolkien forgot that he had ever met John. Now uncertain as to why he had created Tom, he made up the doll explanation.
I know that this story is strange, but it's true. John told it to me himself during our trip to 1983. We were in my childhood house to take a 3 foot tall Shogun Warrior I had "lost" when I was 8. John saw the Hobbit poster in my room and told the tale.
*What’s that, laddy-o? You hate old Tom, do you now?
O, Tom Bombadil is a merry old fellow
his coat is blue and his boots are yellow
and if you don’t like him then FUCK OFF AND DIE
DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE de-lally-o!*
When reading the books I always just thought of Tom Bombadill as the only true “good” character in the story: the person to counterbalance the evil of Sauron. (Also, the only person on whom the ring had no effect).
The story about how utterly rude he was to an American who’d done nothing to offend was in “The Tolkien Letters”.
“Oppressed” in the sense that it was nearly out of his imagining that somebody could be separated from the tempation of choice good and evil as it manifested in Middle Earth. To Tolkien, especially in the midst of WWII, such were inexplicable. Those people who weren’t for or against the Nazis, but who rejected the question of who they were for.
(He played Costner’s daddy in Prince of Thieves and also the character of Antonio in Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing. He was the older, ever merry, dark-haired, bearded guy who hung out with Kate Bekinsale’s dad, Leonato (sp?) who was- Oh, just go to imdb.com and look him up for cryinoutloud!)
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Four foot guys with hairy feet, talking with the trees, and stabbing giant spiders, while ghosts with crowns ride around on Pterodactyls, and you guys think its the poet in yellow boots that doesn’t fit?
