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Showing posts with label Tom Bombadil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Bombadil. Show all posts
11 July 2026

Treebeard on Tom Bombadil

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In view of the recent news that Tolkien once said in a letter previously unpublished that Treebeard knew more about what was going on in Th...
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20 November 2022

Hobbits and the Shire: The strength of the hills is theirs also.

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Yesterday, a friend sent me something he was working on about The Lord of the Rings , and what he had to say about Hobbits and the Shire in ...
23 March 2021

Hope and Courage in Memory -- Tolkien Reading Day 2021

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After rescuing the hobbits from the Barrow-wight, Tom Bombadil, in a moment I have always found unforgettable, conjures an elegiac memory of...
28 February 2021

Temptation, all I never wanted -- Old Tom and the One Ring

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Speaking of Tom Bombadil in a letter to Naomi Mitchison in 1954 (Letter no. 144, p. 178-79) Tolkien wrote: Tom Bombadil is not an important ...
25 February 2021

A Brief Note on "Exploring 'The Lord of the Rings'" episode 174

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In discussing Elrond's commentary on the stories of Frodo and Gandalf in The Council of Elrond , Corey Olsen had occasion to wonder how...
22 October 2017

Guest Post -- Meredith McEwen on Goldberry

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Some weeks ago, following up on discussions in the class Meredith McEwen refers to below, I posted some observations on Goldberry . Soo...
07 September 2017

Two Quick Observations on Goldberry

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Claude Monet -- Water Lilies, 1920-26 In a chair, at the far side of the room facing the outer door, sat a woman. Her long yellow ...
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05 September 2017

Evil Trees

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A few sessions ago in Exploring The Lord of the Rings  we briefly considered how odd it seemed that Old Man Willow was surrounded with su...
10 July 2017

And his feet are faster -- Old Tom's Trochees (FR 1.viii.142)

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copyright Alan Lee Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught hi...
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10 February 2017

Some Thoughts on Structure and Meaning in The Lord of the Rings

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Yes, Simon. There she is again Quite a few years ago now in his still highly relevant article, 'The Interlace Structure of The Lo...
28 October 2016

'For some the only glimpse. For some the awaking.'

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Titania, Queen of the Fairies -- C. Wilhelm 'It's a trap!' said Sam, and he laid his hand upon the hilt of his sword; a...
12 February 2016

Glad Would He Have Been To Know Its Fate (RK 5.vi.844)

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So passed the sword of the Barrow-downs, work of Westernesse. But glad would he have been to know its fate who wrought it slowly long...
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04 October 2015

From Crickhollow to the Gates of Bree: States of Consciousness

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In her splendid study, A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie , Verlyn Flieger illuminates the role of time and dreams in ...