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			<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Haunting SpiritPosts: 52</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>
 <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle>  Tom is what i want him to be
 
 i think tom is a being akin to the ainur, yet not of them, similar to the eagles.  everyone else might not think this, many of you might think that he is a maia or a nature spirit or something else.  but that is your idea of tom, and to you that is who tom is and will always be.
 
 tolkien left tom a mystery to make a point but in doing so he left it up to each reader to decide for himself/herself who tom is.  it is like tolkien said, he left blanks to be filled in by others.
 
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