Tom bombadill

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I think TOm was a maia. The power of the ring does not effect him, I.e. make him invisible, as it doesn't sauron who was also a maia. But what does Tom do in the story...friends of the animals and plants and stuff, which suggest one of Yavanna's creations or underlings. BUt he is also, very powerfull and destroys the wraiths or whateveer in the BArrowdowns, this suggests someone else, and underling of Tulkas and his jollieness. I do not belive that TOm was Tulkas because he played a small role in the Battles at the end which would probably have drawn TUlkas too. But of his location so close to the barrow-downs, is interseting. A guard of the un-dead, and spirits that were there. If im not mistaken and correct me if Im wrong the barrow-downs were from the war with the witch angmar, maybe Tom was a helper in that war from the undieing land and stayed. Or maybe a guardian of the spirits there? sent from Mandos? JUst a though?

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