I want to discuss here interesting things related with this book as well as some aspects related with the movies based on the The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
I will add more next week.
Full Version: The Two Towers, Mordor, The Fellowship of the Ring
Hallow people of Merry England! Happy New Year.
Will you be so kind to help the fat Enki to understand why granny Tolkien have introduced the personage of Tom Bombadil in the Lord of the Ring?
Please consider the following passage from that famous trilogy.
Will you be so kind to help the fat Enki to understand why granny Tolkien have introduced the personage of Tom Bombadil in the Lord of the Ring?
Please consider the following passage from that famous trilogy.
| QUOTE |
| The stars shone through the window and the silence of the heavens seemed to be round him. He spoke at last out of his wonder and a sudden fear of that silence: [fantastic sentence is not it?] ‘Who are you Master?’ he asked. ‘Eh, what?’ said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. ‘Don’t you know my name yet? That is the only answer. Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless? But you are young and I am old. Eldest, that’s what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before Big People, and saw the Little People arriving. He was before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow - wights. When the Elves passed westward, Tom was here already, before the seas were bent. He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless – before the Dark Lord came from Outside.’ |
Tolkien provided interesting short verses
#1.
| QUOTE |
| Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by the reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us! |
#2.
| QUOTE |
| Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster. |
#3.
| QUOTE |
| Wake now my merry lads! Wake and hear me calling! Warm now be heart and limb! The cold stone is fallen; Dark door is standing wide; dead hand is broken, Night under Night is flown, and the Gate is open! |
Very interesting.
By the way. Why Tom Bombadil was not presented in the movies?
I think it is a very interesting question.
Here is an interesting link
http://www.cas.unt.edu/~hargrove/bombadil.html
| QUOTE |
| Many readers of the Lord of the Rings consider Tom's presence in the first book to be an unnecessary intrusion into the narrative, which could be omitted without loss. Tolkien was aware of their feelings, and in part their judgment was correct. As Tolkien wrote in a letter in 1954, ". . . many have found him an odd and indeed discordant ingredient. In historical fact I put him in because I had already invented him. . . and wanted an 'adventure' on the way. But I kept him in, and as he was, because he represents certain things otherwise left out" (Ibid., p. 192). Judging by these remarks, critical readers are correct about the arbitrariness of Tom's introduction into the story; however, as Tolkien continues, he deliberately (nonarbitrary) kept Tom in to fulfill a particular role, to provide an additional dimension. In a letter written to the original proofreader of the trilogy in 1954, Tolkien reveals a little about what Tom's literary role or function might be. Early in the letter he writes that "even in a mythological Age there must be some enigmas, as there always are. Tom Bombadil is one (intentionally)" (Ibid., p. 174). Later he adds that "Tom is not an important person - to the narrative. I suppose he has some importance as a 'comment'." He then goes on to explain that each side in the War of the Ring is struggling for power and control. Tom in contrast, though very powerful, has renounced power in a kind of "vow of poverty," "a natural pacifist view." In this sense, Tolkien says, Tom's presence reveals that there are people and things in the world for whom the war is largely irrelevant or at least unimportant, and who cannot be easily disturbed or interfered with in terms of it (Ibid., pp. 178-79). Although Tom would fall if the Dark Lord wins ("Nothing would be left for him in the world of Sauron," Ibid.), he would probably be "the Last as he was the First" (Rings, 1:279). |
And you also can find interesting ideas about our dear Tom here http://www.halexandria.org/dward352.htm as well.
Hope you will enjoy brain – stimulating reading.
By the way gentlemen I am inviting you to drink a cup of tea in our nice small library tea-hall located in the middle of the three green forest-hills.
We are going to speak about the cabbages and kings and besides we will discuss very interesting project related with the old plans of Sir Christopher.
New Version:
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Puritan-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Dreamy Men able to fly,
One for the Shiny Lord on his evergreen throne,
In the land of Avnon where the Sun does shine bright.
One Ring to call them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all to tea and chat with,
In the Land of Avnon where the Sun does shine bright.
Hope you will like that.
10 methods how to hack the projects of the Lord Dritte.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Puritan-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Dreamy Men able to fly,
One for the Shiny Lord on his evergreen throne,
In the land of Avnon where the Sun does shine bright.
One Ring to call them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all to tea and chat with,
In the Land of Avnon where the Sun does shine bright.
Hope you will like that.
10 methods how to hack the projects of the Lord Dritte.
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