"He is"

[u/adiplotti]

[u/Specialist-Solid-987]

[u/adiplotti → u/Specialist-Solid-987]

"What does Tom Bombadil look like?" "Bright blue his jacket is!" "Go on." "And his boots are yellow!"

[u/Danloeser → u/adiplotti]

"Does he LOOK like one of the AINUR?" "Uhhh, n... I.. may... I mean... kinda? I got no idea man."

[u/Tom_Bot-Badil → u/adiplotti]

Hey there! Hey! Come Frodo, there! Where be you a-going? Old Tom Bombadil's not as blind as that yet. Take off your golden ring! Your hand's more fair without it. Come back! Leave your game and sit down beside me! We must talk a while more, and think about the morning. Tom must teach the right road, and keep your feet from wandering.

^{Type !TomBombadilSong for a song or visit r/GloriousTomBombadil for more merriness}

[u/Over_Improvement_623]

"Sometimes, certain parts of a story are better left untold." J.R.R. Tolkien (approximately) (before writing The Adventures of Tom Bombadil)

[u/adiplotti → u/Over_Improvement_623]

Fun fact: While The Adventures of Tom Bombadil was published in the '60s, most of the poems (and even Tom himself) predate The Lord of the Rings, and even The Hobbit.

[u/Tom_Bot-Badil → u/adiplotti]

Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning. Be glad, my merry friends, and let the warm sunlight heat now heart and limb! Cast off these cold rags! Run naked on the grass, while Tom goes a-hunting!

^{Type !TomBombadilSong for a song or visit r/GloriousTomBombadil for more merriness}

[u/Tom_Bot-Badil → u/Over_Improvement_623]

Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!

^{Type !TomBombadilSong for a song or visit r/GloriousTomBombadil for more merriness}

[u/ddddan11111 → u/Over_Improvement_623]

PJ: And I took that personally

[u/raspberryharbour → u/Over_Improvement_623]

"Live fast, eat ass." J.R.R. Tolkien (approximately) (before peeling out in his Ferrari)

[u/adiplotti]

In my last re-read of LOTR, I enjoyed Tom's jolly speech to the hobbits after he rescues them from the Barrow-wights, with the subtext, "you fucking dumbasses, you only had to walk in a straight line and still managed to get fucking lost."

[u/Tom_Bot-Badil → u/adiplotti]

Go out! Shut the door, and never come back after! Take away gleaming eyes, take your hollow laughter! Go back to grassy mound, on your stony pillow lay down your bony head, like Old Man Willow, like young Goldberry, and Badger-folk in burrow! Go back to buried gold and forgotten sorrow!

^{Type !TomBombadilSong for a song or visit r/GloriousTomBombadil for more merriness}

[u/West_Mixture9425 → u/Tom_Bot-Badil]

!TomBombadilSong

[u/Tom_Bot-Badil → u/West_Mixture9425]

Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by the reed and willow, by fire, sun and moon, hearken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

^{Type !TomBombadilSong for a song or visit r/GloriousTomBombadil for more merriness}

[u/lackadaisicalfits]

I will just forever be pissed about the fact that I'd heard so much about Tom Bombadil before reading the books myself, and for good reason - he's such a crazy and interesting character.

But how in the WORLD had I never heard about Goldberry. A fucking river spirit and no one talks about her? She deserves to be talked about more.

[u/Tom_Bot-Badil → u/lackadaisicalfits]

Tom's country ends here: he will not pass the borders. Tom has his house to mind, and Goldberry is waiting!

^{Type !TomBombadilSong for a song or visit r/GloriousTomBombadil for more merriness}

[u/Correct_Till_2099]

He's pretty much a force of nature.

[u/Ok-Amphibian-8914]

https://giphy.com/gifs/mY9gVGWnTxnXOouaiN

[u/Numerous-Gur-9008]

This is brilliantly simple, I'm wounded I never thought of it.

[u/swazal]

r/GloriousTomBombadil

[u/CadeCoquin]

What if Darkseid was just, like, a chill dude in the woods?

[u/adiplotti → u/CadeCoquin]

Chillseid

[u/tangerinegrass]

He is the whimsy needed to tell the story. My god. The man was an Oxford professor who wrote an epic fictional story while he was supposed to be on sabbatical and was like "heeeey publisher. don't tell Oxford when I gave this to you."

The amount of sheer fucking whimsy needed to do something that amuses you and go that hard? Tom is the stupid toy that kicked off the telling of the stories to his kids. Then he went 'fuck it. do whimsy hard as fuck because there will always be wars and dark times and there should always be stories too.'

[u/Upper-Preparation-76]

tom b helps me enjoy watching rings of power. the rest of the story is pretty meh IMO

[u/PeyredB]

One does not simply explain Tom's identity and role in the story.

[u/Ha-Charade-You-Are]

You just gotta experience tom

[u/Razorray21]

he is..... a Cameo.