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

03-09-2001, 09:37 AM

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Heren, if he came to the earth after the valar then why does it say that he was there before the tree? surely you don't mean that the elves were there before the trees? Mabye its just that he knows everyone else calls him the dark lord and the hobbits do not know of Melkor so he calls him the dark lord. He also says he was her during the great darkness... there was no great darkness during sauron, i think. And there is know mention of any of the maiar coming to arda during saurons reign, besides of course the istari. ANd even if there was they would have stayed in Valinor for there was no Melkor to pervert them and no reason to go into middle earth

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Ongel Guest Posts: n/a	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Newly Deceased Posts: 2</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/nenya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tom Bombadil Heren, if he came to the earth after the valar then why does it say that he was there before the tree? surely you don't mean that the elves were there before the trees? Mabye its just that he knows everyone else calls him the dark lord and the hobbits do not know of Melkor so he calls him the dark lord. He also says he was her during the great darkness... there was no great darkness during sauron, i think. And there is know mention of any of the maiar coming to arda during saurons reign, besides of course the istari. ANd even if there was they would have stayed in Valinor for there was no Melkor to pervert them and no reason to go into middle earth </p>