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Tom's indifference to the affairs surrounding the ring is one reason for thinking of him as an embodiment of nature. Another reason would be his care for Goldberry, who fits Treebeard's description of the Entwives:
...But the Entwives gave their minds to the lesser trees, and to the meads in the sunshine beyond the feet of the forrest; and they saw the sloe in the thicket, and the wild apple and the cherry blossoming in spring, and the green herbs in the waterlands in summer, and the seeding grasses in the autumn fields...
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