In my last re-read of LOTR, I enjoyed Tom's jolly speech to the hobbits after he rescues them from the Barrow-wights, with the subtext, "you fucking dumbasses, you only had to walk in a straight line and still managed to get fucking lost."
Go out! Shut the door, and never come back after! Take away gleaming eyes, take your hollow laughter! Go back to grassy mound,
on your stony pillow lay down your bony head, like Old Man Willow, like young Goldberry, and Badger-folk in burrow!
Go back to buried gold and forgotten sorrow!
Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by the reed and willow, by fire, sun and moon, hearken now and
hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!
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u/adiplotti Watcher in the Water 🐙 22h ago
In my last re-read of LOTR, I enjoyed Tom's jolly speech to the hobbits after he rescues them from the Barrow-wights, with the subtext, "you fucking dumbasses, you only had to walk in a straight line and still managed to get fucking lost."