TWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT! For years, I have been quite happily skipping his chapter, safe in the knowledge that this singing gimp cannot hurt me if I merely avoided the pages he lived on. WHAT POSSESSED ME to break my own long-standing tradition?! Now I am filled with a horrible rage!
Yeeears ago someone on some Tolkien forum or other was TOTALLY OUTRAGED that he'd been left out of the film. And EVERYONE ELSE IN THE UNIVERSE was like, WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU PUT TOM BOMBADIL IN THE FILM? He'd be up there with Jar Jar Binks in the TERRIBLE THINGS TO PUT IN FILMS stakes!
Just as I suspected, nature (and the internet) abhores a Bombadil. Although, if Celebrity Death Match was still on the air, and they did a Tom Bombadil vs Jar Jar Binks episode, I would TOTALLY WATCH THAT. So possibly he has a purpose, if only to star in hypothetical cancelled MTV claymation shorts.
If I was basically ANYONE ELSE in the books, I would have stabbed that stupid singing prick to death before he finished the first verse of whatever his stupid song was. Then everyone would be like, "Hey, Tom Bombadil's dead, who cares about some dumb old ring, I'm hungry, let's go home!"
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