B2MeM Day 16 (late): The Truth About Tom Bombadil

[lady_branwyn]

Researchers at the "Tolkien Sarcasm Page" have discovered the truth about Tom Bombadil. Mere coincidence or something more sinister? You decide for yourself.

Edit: As a bonus, here is their review of Bakshi's Lord of the Rings.

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I guess it would be much easier for him to have his 'Anglo-Saxon' warriors as a horse culture than be exactly A-S - as he had put them a very long way from the sea...!

Coming from somewhere with a Celto-Viking history we only touched on the Anglo-Saxons in history lessons, that I remember. When I first read LotR I saw the Rohirrim as simply being horse-born Vikings.


Oddly, one of the things I remember about Anglo-Saxons is that they were very like the Vikings and that their basic war-bands were usually about 30 strong - much the same size as their basic boat crews.