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Another New 'Lord of the Rings' Movie Is in the Works (gizmodo.com)
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'Shadow of the Past' will see Tolkien superfan Stephen Colbert join forces with the architects of the 'Lord of the Rings' movie saga.

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[–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

What is Tom anyway? Is he a God?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    in universe, unknown (deliberately so). his wife has nature goddess vibes, except that nothing else in LOTR really fits in with that.

    in the real world, he's a character tolkien invented long before he wrote LOTR (he appears in some poems, alongside farmer maggot). when tolkien was writing LOTR, he didnt initially have a very good idea what the plot would end up being (all he knew is, he was writing the hobbit 2), so he included a tom bombadil adventure just so the hobbits would have something to do.

    and then he just never took the episode out during the subsequent 18283281 waves of revisions he did to LOTR during the writing process.

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