Bombadil: One of the Blue Wizards?

[Sarumian]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

Bombadil is not mentioned in The Silmarillion.

Totally agree, it's Istari, who were mentioned there.

Originally Posted by Inziladun

If Tom was a "steward" though, he doesn't seem to have had any success with "guiding" the Eldar. The Vala Oromë was the first to contact them.

I did not mean contact, I rather meant he could do some arrangements secretly. And gathering some information for Valar. He could also be on a special mission from Eru.

Originally Posted by Inziladun

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.

Gandalf says: he IS a moths-gatherer, that doesn't mean he always was. I think he is close to the soul of ME as someone who always was there, and he helps ME to keep its identity waterer changes it goes through. He preserves the sense of living their. And I believe this is the fate of ME that they were talking about in the end. But I still think that he could have been a secret supervisor over first children of Eru and a kind of gardener of their forest who retired when they became ready to be on there own.

I do not insist on this, I just like the idea. Yours is similarly good for me. He is enigma.