The Rings of Power does justice to Tom Bombadil by remembering one crucial thing
Opinion | Tom Bombadil has always been Middle-earth’s most mysterious character, I’m glad The Rings of Power honors that
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Warning: This feature contains spoilers forThe Rings of Power season 2 episode 4.
Tom Bombadilhas long been considered one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most unadaptable characters. The whimsical, singing dweller of the Withywindle who once helped the Hobbits escape danger in The Fellowship of the Ring has been mostly left out of any adaptations.
For good reason too, as Peter Jackson once explained about omitting him from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. Speaking on theDVD appendices, the director noted that they cut him from the story because his inclusion “is not really advancing our story and not really telling us things we need to know”.
Trying to bring that to the screen is tricky, and it doesn’t help too that Bombadil is a tough character to define – and one Tolkien seems reluctant to give any answers about. Instead, we simply know he …
