Uh, Burrahobbit...who was Tom? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
Haldir, your own insight of ol' Tom reflects my own definition of him. Though Tolkien paints him as a far more benign image of Nature than is portrayed in the rest of the novel.
Though he does not seek to control, he does seem to have a well-defined since of "good" and "evil" that agrees with our own definitons. He aids the Hobbits in their hour of need, whereas a true "Spirit of Nature" may have said "What did you want me to do? Old Man Willow was hungry".
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