dijomaja
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Jul 11 2013, 10:56am
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That's another connection. When Tolkien called Bombadil "the spirit of the vanishing English countryside" he was most likely implying that the power resided as much in the land as in the being. Elrond (or is it Gandalf?) says as much. When someone says that Bombadil has the power to resist the Ring, the answer is something like, "Not unless that power be found in the earth itself".
One big difference is that Grahame, like Lewis, used figures from Classical mythology while Tolkien preferred to use Northern European models and his own imagination.
(This post was edited by dijomaja on Jul 11 2013, 10:57am)
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