I looked for any threads that match this, didn't find any, but sorry if I didn't look hard enough.
In
the Fellowship of the Ring in chapter VIII
Fog on the Barrow-Downs, there is an interesting and mysterious line about Tom Bombadil- hence the title of the thread a mystery in a mystery, Tom being an enigma in himself. The line comes after he saves the hobbits from the barrow-wight, and it is:
Quote:
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He chose for himself from the pile a brooch set with blue stones. many-shaded like flax-flowers or the wings of blue butterflies. He looked long at it, as if stirred by some memory...
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(Just to clarify, the ellipsis at the end shows the quote continues, it wasn't written in a such a way, which if it were would add more mystery to it than it already entails.)
What is this memory? Being a big fan of the character of Tom Bombadil I wish I could say I had a clue. Perhaps the answer lies in the poem of
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, but I do not own a copy - because I don't have 300 dollars to buy one! (btw, if anyone has a free copy of this poem if you could please email it to me, or put up a link). What could this brooch be that affects Tom Bombadil so?