[Pookie Me]

"Why", asks my little cherub, "isn't he invisible? He's wearing the ring."

Which is why Tom Bombodil is IMPORTANT! 'cause when HE wore the ring, he didn't turn invisible either. In fact, Tom Bombodil mad THE RING ITSELF disappear!

To sneakers - The swords from the Barrow ARE important, especially when you gets to the Return of the King with Merry and his fight.

Oh well, I guess I should be happy that LORD OF THE RINGS is one of the few movies I've watched that wasn't ruined because I read the book.

Pookie & Me

[tjg]

The part about Tom Bombodil in the book struck me as odd. The whole thing about man eating trees and 'timeless' time and a guy seemly unaffected by anything that happened in Middle earth. It seemed it didn't fit into the story at all.

All throught the books though, whenever his name came up I felt like I had missed or overlooked something important. I can only conclude that Tolkien either mean for Tom B to have a signifigance that went over my head, or Tolkien orignially intended for him to have a part in the books that was later abandoned. (he wrote the books over a period of many years. He could have changed the course of the story many times.)

Also, I didn't give much thought as I read either time to metaphore or allusion. I took the books at complete face value. But stuff like this occurs to me and I wonder if I should have given the story more thought.