Lots of people love getting branded too, doesn't make it a good idea ;)
I'm not insulting anybody, I just hate Tom Bombadil with a passion and consistently skip those pages, and when I do read them I chant in the back of my mind "die Tom Bombadil, die, die in pain". And it is true that when word came out that PJ dropped Tom was when I decided the movies might actually be good (prior to then I was convinced it would be a typical Hollywood hatchet job). If people want to like Tom that's their perogative, but I stand by my declaration that he's the single most annoying character in the series.
You really need to read the Harvard Lampoon version of LOTR where Tom is restyled as "Tim Benzedrino".