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More than One Tom Bombadil?! Hilde felt her brain curdle involuntarily. “No, no,” she shouted across the room. “There is only one Bombadil, but several Tom’s about. Tom is tacked on simply so they don’t have to refer to him as Mister Bombadil as well as to distinguish him from Tom the legendary Harfoot who also got sidetracked along the Withywindle .”
“But I’ve my own crackpot theory, along quite a different line. I think that either the Barrow-wight has been hitting yard sales or has rented these furnishings. For I for one have never heard of him sitting on a sofa, let alone this huge floral variety!”
Hilde looked over to the bookshelf. “And tell me why would he have a signed picture of Peter Jackson on his bookshelf? There is the real mystery of Middle-earth!”
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