Why wasn't he in the movie?

Added nothing except muh nature and was OP

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>>86190234
Why wasn't he in the movie?

Hop along, my little friends, up the Withywindle!
Tom's going on ahead candles for to kindle.
Down west sinks the Sun: soon you will be groping.
When the night-shadows fall, then the door will open,
Out of the window-panes light will twinkle yellow.
Fear no alder black! Heed no hoary willow!
Fear neighter root nor bough! Tom goes on before you.
Hey now! merry dol! We'll be waiting for you!


tolkientards will defend this

>>86190234

People are selfish and everything needs to be in service to them.

Tolkien realises that their are things which trancend the conflicts of our world.

>>86190272
I can't, it's retarded. The Rivendell chapter is retarded, too.

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>>86190266
I always assumed this was Glorfindel next to Elrond

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>>86190272
The comfiest part of the book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRVIVJjuaHE

He could fart in the direction of mordor whilst sleeping and destroy every bit of evil left in middle earth with it. If he cared enough to.

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>>86190364

>>86190234
Because the only thing necessary to the central plot was how the hobbits got their swords (and him saving him from the barrow wrights) - something easily condensed to aragorn just giving them to em. Other than that, Tom literally is worthless to the story.

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Reminder that they smoked weed.

>>86190510
nah, it was tobacco

>>86190404
No he can't. His power is restricted to his little realm.

>>86190272
It needs no defence. It stands perfectly well as it is. Naysayers will be fucked in the withywindle.

>>86190364
did the Hobbits at least bang his wife?

>>86190234
Because Bombadil's tax policy is something even Peter Jackson couldn't defend.

Was Goldberry a daughter of Ulmo?

>>86190874
No retard. The valar and maiar don't reproduce.

The only "children" they have are mortals.

>>86190874
No, but probably a Maiar of Ulmo.

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>>86190912
>The valar and maiar don't reproduce.
But that's wrong.

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Ring a dong! Suck my shlong!

>>86191038
It was a different time

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>>86190364
That is legit comfy. Dont know why but it takes me back to my childhood assembly sing alongs

>>86190234

Because you would have to explain how this massively op character wasn't going to do anything. He's literally above everything in the books, he thinks the ring is a fucking joke. All he wants to do is go for hikes, sing and bang his wife all fucking day.

Easily the most based character

>>86191027
>tfw you will never have a Valar / Maiar wife

>>86190364
Was it autism?

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>>86191330
yes

>>86190234
Because for every good word Tolkien wrote, he wrote a bad one. Tom Bombadil would be in the bad end of the spectrum.

>>86191522
Love Tolkien but he's not the best writer ever, just the best worldbuilder.

>>86192482

Nah that would be J.K Rowling.

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>>86192670
She's the best if you want to compare the ability to write dull franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>>86192670
You said this just to bait out the pasta didn't you

>>86191183
>He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

>>86193056
>They heard of the Great Barrows, and the green mounds, and the stone-rings upon the hills and in the hollows among the hills. Sheep were bleating in flocks. Green walls and white walls rose. There were fortresses on the heights. Kings of little kingdoms fought together, and the young Sun shone like fire on the red metal of their new and greedy swords. There was victory and defeat; and towers fell, fortresses were burned, and flames went up into the sky. Gold was piled on the biers of dead kings and queens; and mounds covered them, and the stone doors were shut; and the grass grew over all. Sheep walked for a while biting the grass, but soon the hills were empty again. A shadow came out of dark places far away, and the bones were stirred in the mounds. Barrow-wights walked in the hollow places with a clink of rings on cold fingers, and gold chains in the wind. Stone rings grinned out of the ground like broken teeth in the moonlight.

>>86190272
I used to work with teenagers in an after school program, and during a bunch of get to know each other games, I had to make all of them laugh. After a few tries that didn't work, I just started dancing around and singing some of Tombadil's songs. They all thought it was fucking hilarious and asked what I was doing. When I said it was from Lord of the Rings they didn't believe me.

>>86192904
BASED

>>86193056
COMFY KINO

>>86193056
>>86193203
In the House of Tom Bombadil is literally the best chapter of Fellowship. Maximum comfy.

>>86190272
look up when was this written
it was different time
gay songs were not gay back then
except this LOTR is timeless

>>86193288
>When they caught his words again they found that he had now wandered into strange regions beyond their memory and beyond their waking thought, into times when the world was wider, and the seas flowed straight to the western Shore; and still on and back Tom went singing out into ancient starlight, when only the Elf-sires were awake. Then suddenly he stopped, and they saw that he nodded as if he was falling asleep. The hobbits sat still before him, enchanted; and it seemed as if, under the spell of his words, the wind had gone, and the clouds had dried up, and the day had been withdrawn, and darkness had come from East and West, and all the sky was filled with the light of white stars.

>>86193203
In such a short excerpt he managed to conjure a full and rich history surrounded by myths and legend and mystery...

Only plebs dont appreciate the kino that is the chapter "in the house of tom bombadil"

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>>86190234
It could have ended so easily...

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>>86193424
>>86193203
>>86193056
I never read the books (or books in general) but god damn that is good

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>>86190234
WHY NOT INDEED

The real question is what did he talk about with Gandalf at the end of the book?

>>86193544
I love that so much about LotR. There's this deep, ancient history that's always hinted at in the background. So fucking good.

>>86190266
>Colonel, we've managed to avoid drowning

I know what happens to humans and elves when they die, but what about orcs, dwarves, and halflings?

I'm sad they pretty much cut all the forest parts.
They were comfy af.

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>ASHI
What did he mean by this

>>86194007
>what about orcs,
They go to the hallsof mandos. Those of human extraction go where humans go

>dwarves,
Rot in the ground and fertilize the soil

>and halflings?
Go where humans go

>>86193633
Goddamn he would be perfect

>>86192904
How can /lit/ have such shit taste in literature

>>86194805
that's a troll list

For Frodo

>>86194805
/lit/ is the single worst board on 4chan.

It's filled to the brim with toxic english majors who hate everything.