Who do you think Tom Bombadil really was

[Gwaihir the Windlord]

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I'm going to get stuck into this for once. I've never done it before because I got sick of the countless threads entitled 'Who is Tom Bombadil?'

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> 'He has been a moss gatherer; and I have been a stone doomed to rolling.'<hr></blockquote>

Gandalf is a Maia; if he says this, it could mean that Tom is one too. It suggests that they have something in common.

Goldberry is a Maia, a lesser spirit of Ulmo. Why would she marry Tom if he was not one also?

And what else could he be? Those theories about embodiements of Arda and earthly forms of Illuvitar are all very well, but really, they are impossible. That he crept into Arda from the Void in the beginning is also unsatisfactory. No one else is reputed as to have done so.
And people that are content with the phrase 'Tom is' are avoiding the question. <img src=wink.gif ALT="">

I'm going to get my head bitten of for this, I know, but I'll say it anyway. Bombadil is a Maia. <img src=wink.gif ALT="">

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