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What is Tom Bombadil?
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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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Tolkien was just retelling legends, folktales, fairy tales, children's bedtime stories etc. He did piece them together to create extended connected lore, but not everything gets cleanly explained away in this kind of worldbuilding technique.
So really imo Tom Bombadil is just some contrivance of Tolkien to make the story feel more like some old fairy tale.