In Tolkien's Letters, he states that Tom Bombadil is the spirit of the disappearing Oxfordshire countryside. I don't have the book and cannot give the reference, but if you do a search on Tom Bombadil at these forums, you will find ALL the many threads that have discussed these same points, and find far more opinions than you ever knew were out there.
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