November 1st, 2021
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Just noticed a neat detail in the Return of the King
In the Fellowship, there is a part where Frodo and Sam get lost in a forest and meet some hippie weirdo named "Tom Bombadil" or something. He is never mentioned again, or so I thought...
On my past reread of Return of the King, I noticed this line:
"'Oh, I did have a brother, once,' Gandalf said. Frodo looked at him with the eyes of an innocent babe.
'A brother?'
'Oh yes,' Gandalf started, 'his name was Tom. And before I lost him to the forest, he was a wizard like me[...]'"
Pretty clear that the Tom here is our Tom B. Pretty cool that I never noticed this!
November 1st, 2021
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Comments:
swazal
It’s not there. Don’t know where you could have seen it except in some translation. Gandalf does say this:
“But if you would know, I am turning aside soon. I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time. He is a moss-gatherer, and I have been a stone doomed to rolling. But my rolling days are ending, and now we shall have much to say to one another.”
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chrismcshaves
Don’t feed ze trolls.
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