[HarryDunne]

IMO Tom and Goldberry are two of the most important characters in the story, both for what they are and for what they are not. True, they refuse to get involved in things outside their own forest and that's not exactly admirable, but Tom, who is Master and the River's Daughter teach us all some very valuable lessons that are touched nowhere else in the books.

That's true. To me, it was a tease. I thought they would come back later in the series. To introduce such powerful characters only to have them drift away wasn't what I wanted to see.

Will Fangorn and the Ents be in The Two Towers? I don't seen them listed in the The Two Towers credits.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

The Ents will be CGI and John Rhys-Davies is doing the voice of Treebeard. I don't know who else is doing the voices.

[ArGee]

That's true. To me, it was a tease. I thought they would come back later in the series. To introduce such powerful characters only to have them drift away wasn't what I wanted to see.

The key is in understanding Tom as master. Tom is master of himself, not of Middle Earth. That's why the ring has no impact on him. The ring can't master him because Tom is master.

Tom is a person who is totally at home with who he is and his place in the world. He does not desire adventure for its own sake, nor fame, nor glory, nor wealth. All he desires is to love his lady and be loved by her. He has his part and doesn't try to go playing someone else's. In Christian terms, he doesn't see every opportunity as a calling, but waits patiently until he is called. Because he so thoroughly trusts in G-d for who he is, he can resist the opportunity to try to step outside of his calling.

Shalom.