Posted: November 24, 1999 at 10:32:46: by Berembrôg
: : Any ideas as to who this denizen of the Old Forest was?: My best guess, for what it's worth, is that she was one of the least powerful of the followers of the followers of Ulmo, whose writ ran (Silmarillion) in any water as far as the very springs of streams. Or in classical terms a (fresh)water-nymph. So if the River-woman is to be taken as a water-nymph, i.e. a Maia, then Tom Bombadil may have been, as Foster defines him, "a Maia gone native". What do you think?
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