Tom seems pretty alive to me, what with the gorgeous wife ( [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ), the feasting, the singing, the collecting of pretty broches...
Perhaps you are trying to draw some sort of biological distinction between Tom and Treebeard, based on which of the two is closer to the real-world definition of life?
But in that case, you'd have to say that Gandalf is "nonliving" as well.
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