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- From: 880790w@dragon.acadiau.ca (Andrew Ward)
- Subject: Re: Boromir and Bombadil
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.000156.25171@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Organization: Acadia University
- References: <92328.124405BLL102@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:01:56 GMT
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- BLL102@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >TOM BOMBADIL - I think this is part of a discontinued thread. It seems like
- >Tolkien put him in there, possibly with the intention of using him further,
- >and then never got back to him for whatever reason. There is a lot of space
- >devoted to him in the trilogy - more than seemed necessary for a "one-time"
- >character, and I can't help but wonder if J.R.R. had more plans for him
- >originally.
-
- >Of course, Tolkien has been known to throw in interesting side line
- >characters, like the farmer-with-the-big-dogs-who-grows-mushrooms (can you
- >tell I've forgotten his name at the moment?), because some reference is made
- >to him later, that he sees more than he tells, or something to that effect.
- >Maybe he never intended to go back to Bombadil, but threw him in for a
- >diversion. I dunno about that, though.
-
- >-Belinda LeFor
- >bll102@psuvm.psu.edu
- >Penn State University
- >Anthropology Department
-
- Actually I think Tolkien wrote extensive backgrounds to most of his characters.
- In fact, Farmer Maggot (the farmer-with-the-big-dogs-who-grows-mushrooms) and
- tom bombadil were good friends and communicated quite frequently. For more
- information on Tom Bombadil you could read "the Adventures of Tom Bombadil"
- It's a compilation of poetry by Tolkien about Middle-Earth. Quite good.
-
- -Andrew Ward.
-