Despite their fairly obscure role within the larger legendarium, and the fact that they are entirely missing from the Jackson films, Tom Bombadil and Goldberry are a couple of the most beloved characters by readers of J.R.R. Tolkien, and there is little wonder as to why. When Frodo and his friends enter the Old Forest, they find themselves in the strange world of fairy, in which the trees themselves have wills, long-corrupted with age and the weariness of standing against an increasingly hostile, modernizing world. Old Man Willow gets a hold of the hobbits and seeks to consume them into his trunk of despair, but jolly ol’ Tom Bombadil enters the scene and sings the tree back to its essence, which, among other things, means it no longer eats hobbits.
You Can't Live in the House of Tom Bombadil
You Can't Live in the House of Tom Bombadil
You Can't Live in the House of Tom Bombadil
Despite their fairly obscure role within the larger legendarium, and the fact that they are entirely missing from the Jackson films, Tom Bombadil and Goldberry are a couple of the most beloved characters by readers of J.R.R. Tolkien, and there is little wonder as to why. When Frodo and his friends enter the Old Forest, they find themselves in the strange world of fairy, in which the trees themselves have wills, long-corrupted with age and the weariness of standing against an increasingly hostile, modernizing world. Old Man Willow gets a hold of the hobbits and seeks to consume them into his trunk of despair, but jolly ol’ Tom Bombadil enters the scene and sings the tree back to its essence, which, among other things, means it no longer eats hobbits.