Tom Bombadil, eh? I would say that this brings us into a discussion of TB's nature, which, I believe, has been tackled on other threads; therefore I will leave it alone and refer you to the learned and erudite opinions on other threads.
Oh Old Forest dweller, [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] that was my reference to 'Edwardian', which is information I learned from Child of the 7th Age off of the 'Frodo's Sacrifice' thread (I think). The context for calling the period Edwardian is that Tolkien was born and raised during that period, and the particular Edwardian-ness Child was referring to, I think, was the West Midlands variety that did not partake of the stuffed-upedness to which you refer, much less the rampant industrialization. The West Midlands were free from that until after World War II, if I remember my Humphrey Carpenter authorized biography correctly. Thanks for catching me in my contextual goof, though. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
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