Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow!Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!
The older and more mature I've gotten, the more I've grown to love Tom Bombadil. When I first tried to read The Lord Of The Rings as a teenager, the Bombadil chapters stopped me cold and I couldn't continue the story. When I was a bit of an older teenager, I tried again, and basically forced myself through the Bombadil chapters with gritted teeth.Then in my twenties I went back to LOTR and reread it, and my attitude had changed completely. I found the Bombadil chapters beautiful and moving. Something about the very stuckness of them, the fact that here the story DOES come to a halt for a while, had changed from being frustrating to being very fulfilling.Now, in my 30s, I reread LOTR again about a year ago. I found Bombadil an immense delight and possibly my favorite section of the entire trilogy. He feels so big and grand, beyond the scope of the Hobbits or anything else in Middle-Earth. He's our first taste of what Sam will wind up saying later, that we are caught up in a great story that we don't see the limits of and really only play a small part in.
>>25040874based, i like him too
BOMBADILLO BOMBACLAAT
Hey Tom.
Kill tom nut in goldberry
>>25040874>as a child: weird but okay?>as a teen: ugh, cringe!>in 20s: pretty boring, not gonna lie>in 30s: oh god goldberry is hot
>mfw I read a bombadil chapter
>>25040829>>25040874>He's our first taste of what Sam will wind up saying later, that we are caught up in a great story that we don't see the limits of and really only play a small part in.I got this impression on my first read of LOTR. When the Hobbits first meet him, I thought it was amazing that they were talking to a guy who is suggested to be some sort of god who has existed since the beginning of time. They literally had only spent a few days walking out of Hobbiton and already came across a divine being, implying that their adventure was going to be grand.I like Tom.
>>25040829>>25040874Tom Bombadil is a second-rate imitation of Shakespearian merriness. /lit/ should be talking about Toby Belch or John Oldcastle and quoting Shakespeare's lyrics not this genre slop. It's genuinely embarrassing how little /lit/ talks about Shakespeare.
>>25041240You can go and make a Shakespeare thread, anon. Nothing is stopping you.
>>25041240Shakespearian merriness involves whoring, dicing and quaffing flagons of sack. Tom Bombadil grew out of that millennia ago.
>>25041240look at this anon, three fingers in his ass, THREE
