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Essay: The Mysterious Presence of Tom Bombadil

Attalus Lorien Mar 16 2018, 12:44am Views: 2045 Essay: The Mysterious Presence of Tom Bombadil http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/...of-tom-bombadil.html We are the fighting Uruk-Hai! We slew the great warrior! Well, yeah, first he killed a bunch of us and another whole lot of Mauhúr's lads, and we had to shoot enough arrows into him to drop a Mûmak. But we got him! (This post was edited by Attalus on Mar 16 2018, 12:45am)

squire Half-elven Mar 16 2018, 1:03am Views: 2039 Way too glib The essay starts well, but goes off the tracks when comparing Bombadil to Lewis' "pagan" character, thus imposing on Tolkien's implicitly Christian story Lewis' explicitly Christian terms of engagement. But 'The Imaginative Conservative' is a fine Christian conservative magazine. I did like the illustration of Goldberry as a skinny dipping 'River daughter'. I wish the internet would make it easier to credit images to their creators - who made that painting, I'd like to know? squire online: RR Discussions: The Valaquenta, A Shortcut to Mushrooms, and Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit Lights! Action! Discuss on the Movie board!: 'A Journey in the Dark'. and 'Designing The Two Towers'. Archive: All the TORn Reading Room Book Discussions (including the 1st BotR Discussion!) and Footerama: "Tolkien would have LOVED it!" Dr. Squire introduces the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: A Reader's Diary = Forum has no new posts. Forum needs no new posts.

Eruonen Half-elven Mar 24 2018, 4:58am Views: 1839 Some interesting comparisons and views.