Re: LOTR
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 11, 2001, 19:10 |
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On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> My impression, from reading the material available to me 20 years ago,
> was that Tom Bombadil was created with the world, co-eval with it, by
> the fancy of Iluvatar. He is thus outside the need to create or to
> preserve himself and can live absolutely in the moment. The big events
> of the world must pass him by --- no nazgul can enter his woods, but
> neither does a wizard care to go there.
Gandalf knew him and at some point went to have a long talk
with him.