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- From: 880790w@dragon.acadiau.ca (Andrew Ward)
- Subject: Re: Tom Bombadil
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.024722.5410@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Organization: Acadia University
- References: <By6F01.7wo@umassd.edu> <1992Nov23.200930.747@dxcern.cern.ch> <98942@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:47:22 GMT
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- schoi@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Samuel Choi) writes:
-
- >>xexeo@dxcern.cern.ch (Geraldo Xexeo) writes:
- >>Tom is Valar, as far as I am informed.I will try to check the
- >>information at home.
-
- >There's no way Tom is a Valar . . . or is that that plural? . . . in which case
- >there's no way he's a Vala. There're only, what, 9, Valar? Manwe being the
- >head honcho, then Melkor, and Umlo . . . and then I don't remember.
-
- >I've heard someone say that that he's one of the maiar . . . don't know where
- >that info's from . . .
-
- >sam
-
- I've actually looked into this some time ago. I've never found anything that
- specifically said what he was. But from the way he is described he seems to
- most closely resemble a maiar.
-
- - Andrew
-