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Gruesome Spectre
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Heaven's doorstep
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Bombadil is not mentioned in The Silmarillion. Quote:
No, Gandalf speaks of him as a "moss-gatherer". To me that means he had no active, intended role in the fates of the denizens of ME, at least in the eyes of the Valar. My own idea is that he could indeed have been an Ainu who entered Eä very early on, and was content to merely observe the unfolding of the Themes. If, as I think, Ungoliant was a spirit of the same nature following her own agenda, I see no reason why it couldn't have been so with Tom. When his path crossed that of Frodo and Co. though, Bombadil recognized that the meeting wasn't a random event. Quote:
That says to me that while Tom had been allowed by the Maker to do his own thing in Middle-earth, he was still used to accomplish things not of his own design. I suppose what I mean to say is that I see Bombadil as having no particular agenda. He just was, and seems to have had a pretty idyllic existence.
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