Posted: January 05, 19100 at 03:03:36: by Michael Martinez
: I have been carefully reading Letters of JRRT, noting as I go
: possible answers or information relevant to many old threads
: posted here. As to Tom, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
: pre-dates LOTR by nearly 20 years (and may pre-date The
: Hobbit--I don't recall). It is not certain that Tom, when
: originally written, belonged to the same "legendarium".Actually, the original Tom does NOT belong to the legendarium. Tolkien reinvented him for THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and some years later (in the 1960s) revised the Bombadil poem and wrote a new one to be consistent with LOTR.
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