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The difficulty many of us face in understanding Tom Bombadil arises from the fact that he is part of nature and we all too often think of o...

In view of the recent news that Tolkien once said in a letter previously unpublished that Treebeard knew more about what was going on in Th...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...