I'd also turn to the fact that Tom is an enigma, but for some reason, that does not satisfy my curiosity in the slightest. Therefore, I cannot leave that to be my answer.
Goldberry. Well, I guess the reason we don't think of her much is that Tom seems more pertinent to the hobbits. Tom saves them, takes them in, tells them tales, wears the Ring in their view, gives them horses, and finally saves them again. Key among those is Tom putting on the Ring and being unaffected. I think these occurences make Tom overshadow Goldberry in a way. But it is true that her nature is about as equally unknown as Tom's.
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Originally Posted by The 1,000 Reader
The H was capitalized because of grammar, not because Tom is God.
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My point was not really that the 'H' was capital. I was commenting more on how strikingly similar the 'he is' sounded to 'I am'. In each case, it merely states existance, rather than being followed by a descriptor. There are very few other examples (actually none that I can think of) that make use of such a statement. Simply saying that Tom exists really reminded me of God's name, I am, that simply says that He exists. But, regardless of the fact that I think this is a debatable subject, I was saying so largely as a joke. Sort of poking at
Fordim for his 'Is Eru God?' thread. Hence the
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On a completely different tangent, has anyone ever wondered if Tom was perhaps the embodiment of Tolkien himself into Middle-Earth?