Who do you think Tom Bombadil really was

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/onering.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tom Bombadil

Of course, Elenanna! That thought just hit me while browsing another good Tolkien site (although nowhere near as fantastically superior as the BD) where the quote at the top reads your sig and under it a translation. Gildor to Frodo, if I recall now. <img src=tongue.gif ALT=":b">

Mith's point is very true, and rightly brought back into the spotlight. And all of this confuses me, so I don't think I'll comment on anything...partly because I couldn't be bothered. <img src=tired.gif ALT="/I">

But...if Arda was empty before, presumably, Melkor descended into it, and all life was created by Illuvatar's hand and was not 'awakened' (even though it was present, lying dormant so to speak [i.e. we speak of the 'awakening' of elves, suggesting they were 'hibernating' until given the signal to rise, much the same as the Seven Fathers of Dwarves] how would Tom have been 'here' before Melkor even if that was the 'Dark Lord' he was talking about? Who was he created by if he wasn't a Maiar and was awakened before the elves?

Blah! <img src=rolleyes.gif ALT=":rolleyes">

- enep</p>