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frodo-with-glasses · 3 days
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More Reading Thoughts: The Old Forest
FINALLY making some progress in the book again, holy cow. It was beginning to feel like Fellowship really would take seventeen years.
I really love the thunder in Frodo’s dream from the last chapter turning into the sound of Merry banging on the door at the start of this one. It’s incredibly cinematic and mashes you feel like you’re watching a movie :-D
“Even Pippin is up” Even Pippin, he says! Pippin the notorious late-riser
Today’s vocabulary word is: spinney! It’s a British term for “a small area of trees and bushes.”
Aww Fatty seeing them off with “good luck to you—today and every day!” That’s a blessing Frodo is gonna sorely need.
Pippin: “Is it actually dangerous in here?” Merry: “Nah, the trees only bite sometimes.”
Tolkien is so good with suspense and writing things that give you the creeps. This is one of those times.
Pippin’s solution to the trees being mean is to yell at them
It’s really interesting to notice the pattern of hope and despair in the way Tolkien writes. Every time get the sense that the hobbits are about to give up, like clockwork, some good fortune entices them to take another step. First the appearance of the Bonfire Glade, and then the easier path, and now the hill…little valleys of despair juxtaposed with little victories, leading them forward like a breadcrumb trail.
Ooh the Barrow-Downs, dun dun dunnn
The forest slowly forcing the hobbits off the track they want to go is SO CREEPY and so good
There is definitely something almost hypotonic about the repetition of the word “willows” as Token describes the river scene
Heeheehee Old Man Willow time
There is something about Merry begging Frodo and Sam to follow Old Man Willow’s orders that is just DEEPLY disturbing to me. Gives me vibes like that episode of Sherlock when Moriarty is speaking through helpless people to whom he has strapped a vest full of explosives. But Old Man Willow doesn’t have a voice, so how does Merry know what he wants?? How is he speaking through this hobbit?? I hate it I hate it I love that I hate it
IT’S TOM BOM
TIM BIM
THOMAS BOMBADOMAS
In which Tom Bombadil spanks a tree for being naughty
Old Man Willow spitting Pippin out will never not be funny 🤣
The whole Tom Bombadil sequence is definitely a fever dream of “I don’t think we’re in Middle Earth anymore, Toto”, and ya either love it or you hate it
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chechula · 3 months
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I continue my journey through Middle-earth, now postcards from house of Tom Bombadil and Barrows-downs ♡
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damnfine-dalecooper · 2 years
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Actually I love that Tolkien decided to include Tom Bombadil. What an amazingly unhinged decision. Literally 5 minutes out of the Shire Merry & Pippin almost get eaten by a sentient evil willow tree but there's just Some Guy who's In Charge of the trees and tells it to let them out. He's older than elves and the river is his wife. Also he's immune to the ring, the thing that the preceding 120 pages and following 800 pages are entirely about and he literally never shows up again. Everyone's like "oh he's God" and Tolkien was like NO he's not God he's literally just a Guy and I don't know what he's doing there either he just wants to be. Incredible. No notes.
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s-u-w-i · 22 days
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Another seven 🌼 The handsome guys never quite turn out the way I want, it's so much easier to draw orcs and creatures... More characters here and here!
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gandalf-the-fool · 5 months
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lowcountry-gothic · 2 years
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Battle of Five Armies
There and Back Again
Tom Bombadil
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Battle of the Hornburg
Battle of the Pelennor Fields
Battle of the Morannon
Evenstar
Red Book of Westmarch
Art by Wavesheep. Part I | Part II | Part III. 
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Tolkien: Tom Bombadil is a funky little dude who lives in the forest with his hot wife. Also the most evil thing in the world has no effect on him.
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glorf1ndel · 6 months
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It’s September 26, and you know what that means… Tom Bombadil Day! 🎉 On this day of their quest, Tolkien’s Hobbits met the mysterious, whimsical, nature-loving Tom Bombadil. 😎
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velvet4510 · 25 days
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geekysteven · 15 days
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"no, you don't get it, I mean if Tom Bombadil lived in *our* world, he'd be an epic shitposter"
JRR TOLKIEN'S GHOST: please stop summoning me
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DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?
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sunderedseas · 9 months
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does anyone remember that textpost that was like. frodo’s admiration of goldberry isn’t sexual attraction it’s like a gay man’s love of lady gaga or something like that…. i can’t find it… but i remember it…
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frasier-crane-style · 7 months
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Are you starting to see the big picture yet?
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sillylotrpolls · 7 months
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character-of-all-time · 11 months
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ROUND 3: TOM BOMBADIL (lord of the things) VS KERMIT THEE FROG (muppet)
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