Re: LOTR
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 9, 2001, 23:44 |
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Am 11.09.01, The Gray Wizard yscrifef:
> I first read LOTR long before The Silmarillion was published. When rumors
> of its imminent publication surfaced, I was certain that the overgrown
> hobbit I knew as Tom Bombadil, would be transformed into Iarwain Ben-Adar, a
> being of more weight and substance, perhaps a Vala or a Maia. I continued
> with that expectation through all 12 volumes of HoME, but alas, I found him
> not.
I expect he's just going to remain one of those enigmatic characters that
we never find out anything about. Like Gandalf's lesser known bretheren
(apart from Saruman, whom we find out rather a lot about). One of the
guides to Middle Earth mentions at least two other Istari, who wandered
off into the far East, in addition to Radagast.
Padraic.
> David
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