[The Saucepan Man]

He was silly in the book and he would have been even sillier in the film. I, for one, am grateful to Jackson for sparing us the "hey dol! merry dol!"'s. <P>Seriously, I agree with all that has been said about the Tom Bombadil scenes being expendable as far as the basic storyline of the films is concerned. <P>I would have liked to have seen the events on the Barrow Downs in the film (what self-respecting B-D'er would not?). And given Jackson's film-making background, I am sure that it would have appealed to him. But, again, the scene was not necessary to the story. And having the Barrow Wight without Tom would no doubt have caused even more uproar here on the Downs.