What other stories have a comparable character to Tom Bombadil?

>>8218940
tu puta madre

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>>8218956
jajaja eso

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>>8218956

>>8218940
Why are there so many Tom types in LOTR?

>tom
>that elf guy that helped the hobbits right after tom
>ghan-buri-ghan
>dernhelm

I'm sure I'm missing a couple but what's the point of having a character show up, help then disappear never to be mentioned again? It's bad writing

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>>8218940
I read this book and it had some dude in it in the second part.
>Came around
>yelled at the people in charge
>did some magic stuff
>was really wise
>people in charge killed him
>came back anyways
>did some more magic stuff
>peace'd out

Just offered advice to the other characters, didn't really help overthrow the empire.
>pic related

>>8218940
Gregory Berrycone

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>>8219118
kek

>>8218940
Is this the one thing from LOTR that generic fantasy did not copy?

>>8220779
Being written in a mythological way that makes sense for the subject matter.

>>8219056
You know who Dernhelm is, don't you?

>>8221421
The deathly afraid guy that gives meriadoc a silent ride to gondor then disappear for no reason

>>8219056

>bad writing to show there are more than just the handful of consistently useful characters