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| Tom Bombadil |
| Though he was omitted from the movie - I like him alot - and so here this page dedicate to thi mysterious person. |
| Tom was originaly a doll - with blue jacket and yellow boots belonging to Tolkin's son Michel.The doll inspired a story fragment, such as he often invented for his children's amusement. That fragment was in turn the basis for the poem "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", published in 1933, which also introduced Goldberry, the barrow wights, and Old Man Willow (the poem was the source of the events in Chapters 6 through 8 of Book I). more information... |
| Old Tom Bombadil was a merry fellow; bright blue his jacket was and his boots were yellow, green were his girdle and his breeches all of leather; he wore in his tall hat a swan-wing feather. He lived up under Hill, were the Withywindle ran from a grassy well down into the dingle. |
| Wise old Bombadil, he was a wary fellow; bright blue his jacket was, and his boots were yellow. None ever caught old Tom in upland or in dingle, walking the forest-paths, or by the Withywindle, or out on the lily-pools in boat upon the water. But one day Tom, he went and caught the River-daughter, in green gown, flowing hair, sitting in the rushes, singing old water-songs to birds upon the bushes. |
| Old Tom Bombadil heeded not the voices, taps, knocks, dancing feet, all the nightly noises; slept till the sun arose, then sang like a starling: "Hey! Come derry-dol, merry-dol, my darling!" sitting on the door-step chopping sticks of willow, while fair Goldberry combed her tresses yellow. |