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- From: markg@typhoon.rice.edu (mark gordon )
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Tom Bombadil
- Message-ID: <By6z94.ACK@rice.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 23:15:04 GMT
- Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
- Organization: Rice University
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- Tom Bombadil must be either a Vala or a Maia. If he is a Maia, he must be
- a higher order than the Istari because the Ring has no power over him whereas
- Gandalf does not wish to take responsibility for the Ring because he is
- cautious of its power and Saruman covets the Ring.
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- He could be a Vala because not all of the Valar were named in Valaquenta which
- says that some of the Valar did not take part in forming Earth. It seems
- unlikely that Tom would be Vala because all of the Valar who took part in the
- creation, and thus who would be found on Earth, were named in Valaquenta.
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- I vote for him being Maia, but I do not believe that this is stated anywhere.
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- More was published on Tom: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL.
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