Who do you think Tom Bombadil really was - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

The Glorious Dead · 11-16-2000, 12:58 PM

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Re: Who do you think Tom Bombadil really was

***?!? My last post has a lot of those accursed red x's but all my words have vanished!!

Oh well. What I had said was concerning Tom B and the ring. Gandalf, and indeed Sauron, were maian spirits, correct? And they were obviously subject to the ring's influence. But Bombadil put the bloody thing on his finger and it did absolutely nothing! So while this doesn't provide a theory to who or what Tom is, it does disprove the maian theory. Unless he's some mutant super-maia, which I doubt.

You're on crack or something, Deceased are brilliant.</p>

11-16-2000, 12:58 PM	#11
The Glorious Dead Pile O'Bones Join Date: Nov 2000 Posts: 17	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Newly Deceased Posts: 7</TD><TD><img src=http://www.spiritcaravan.com/viix/viix2.jpg WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=60></TD></TR></TABLE> Re: Who do you think Tom Bombadil really was **?!? My last post has a lot of those accursed red x's but all my words have vanished!! Oh well. What I had* said was concerning Tom B and the ring. Gandalf, and indeed Sauron, were maian spirits, correct? And they were obviously subject to the ring's influence. But Bombadil put the bloody thing on his finger and it did absolutely nothing! So while this doesn't provide a theory to who or what Tom is, it does disprove the maian theory. Unless he's some mutant super-maia, which I doubt. You're on crack or something, Deceased are brilliant.</p>