>peter jackson didn't put my heckerino tom bombadil
>how could they forget such a great an important character
>he literally does... um... well... he talks to the hobbits!!
>so hecking cool and important
>peter jackson didn't put my heckerino tom bombadil. >how could they forget such a great an important character
Whining about Tom Bombadil or the Scouring not being in the films is just a way for pseuds to subtlebrag about the fact that they've read the books. Realistically neither would have made any sense to add to the films.
The 4 quietly sharing a drink together in the pub while hobbits in the background act like morons over a pumpkin shows their growth as characters more efficiently than them leading a rebellion with their cool new-found abilities and confidence as war heroes. Tolkien was a hack. The entire point of their deeds is that The Shire never has to know of the darkness that threatened it and got to remain in idyllic innocence.
No, I think you missed the point of that chapter entirely, anon.
No, I get it. It's that even an idyllic place as the Shire was affected. I guess my point is that that's dumb.
Nah that anon is right, the scouring of the shire is a metaphor for Tolkien returning to England after being traumatized by WW1 and the whole concept of "you can't go home again". Showing the hobbits solemnly drinking in the pub while the hobbits that didn't go off to war go on as usual was a great way to capture the essence of that part of the story without having to introduce another battle scene and another ending.
Oh I understand why it’s not in the movie and I agree. I do however think the book is ultimately better for having it.
Tolkien:
>dude I hate allegory
>AAAAHHHH THE GREAT WAR THE HUN THE HORROR OF INDUSTRY
Ww1 traumatized him
The fall of gondolin originally featured dragons that were demonic fire and animated metal filled with orcs that they belched into the city and were from his experience around tanks
That would have been able to have been shown through how Frodo has to leave middle earth
no it wasnt
>The entire point of their deeds is that The Shire never has to know of the darkness that threatened it and got to remain in idyllic innocence.
no it wasn’t
Maybe you should stick to movies after all you illiterate swine.
>He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.
kino
the best part about LOTR were always the comfy scenes in the Shire or them sitting in pubs eating and telling stories
That’s why In the House of Tom Bombadil is a maximum cozy chapter of FotR. It’s just Tom telling them stories throughout an entire rainy day and night.
>ROP S2 trailer debuts at Comicon
>Trailer 'ends' with title card then cuts to black
>Three seconds later you hear the faint sounds of singing getting louder
>HEY DOL MERRY DOL RING A DING DILLO!
>Yellow boot strides into the frame to a *BADUM*
>Trailer ends, crowd goes fricking wild
Absolutely gonna happen and yes it will be kino
Tom Bombadil would be black and he would scat or beatbox
Saves the hobbits and gives them the barrow-blades.
gg no re
Serves as an introduction to the danger of the wider wild, they are no longer at home. Pulling the hobbits out of a tree that ate them is a kind of rebirth. Bombadil’s ultimate uselessness for the mission is important too. Pure good isn’t good for fighting evil. You need a bit of tamed darkness within you. It’s also why Frodo becomes a bit more canny regarding the Nazgûl after getting stabbed.
It also serves to completely undermine the power of the one ring and ruin the theme of magic fading from Middle Earth
No it doesn’t. Bombadil holds sway over his domain in the Old Forest, but it’s made clear he doesn’t have the power to withstand Sauron.
What Tolkien did with Saruman's character was moronic
How so?
The fricking VeggieTales LotR has Bombadil and these shitty movies don't
He was supposed to symbolize the element outside the struggle for good and evil that simply exists and enjoying being in and of itself
MAybe they should make tom bombadil prequel story where he slowly loses his mind and become teh tom bombadil
honestly LOTR is unreadable by modern standards. it’s pure christcuck nonsense with no narrative coherence or flow. they get the ring, set off- immediately this guy trivialises the main threat, the ring, and grinds the plot to a halt. reading the bible and bronze age mythology addles your brain and sense of story telling
Modern standards produce Brandon Sanderson, Colleen Hoover, LitRPG, and a sea of YA fantasy trash. You have no clue what you are talking about.
Not him but Sanderson has proven to be much more acceptable than I have thought of him, it is pretty acceptable as background audio book (mistborn specifically)
I like how not including the Scouring undermines the magic of Galadriel's Mirror. I also like how it filters moviegays.
Tolkien should have moved the Tom Bombadill scene to somewhere between the Two Towers and Return of the King. That way it has more mystery instead of undermining the danger of the ring and stalling the set-up to the main story. He might need to move Tom's shack to a weird place but he can just it's magic and appears wherever.
But then Tom Bombadil wouldn't have been able to talk to all the hobbits