Bombadil and Gandalf

[Amarie of the Vanyar]

"he is a moss gatherer and i have been a stone doomed to rolling."

This means that Tom is not a traveller, he stays at home in the Old Forest; and that Gandalf is a traveller that never stays in the same place for long. Think of a stone covered with moss: it implies that the stone has stayed in the same place for time enough to let the moss grow on its surface [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

"a talk that i havent had in all my time." What is the significance of this important discussion?

Who knows? This sentence means to me that Tom is something else than what it seems at first sight; he is important enough for Gandalf to want to have a serious talk with him about 'important matters' [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]