Tom Bombadil is one of my favorite characters. i like his songs....

i had an errand there: gathering water-lilies,
green leaves and lilies white to please my pretty lady,
the last ere year's end to keep them from the winter
to flower by her pretty feet till the snows are melted.
Each and year at summer's end I go to find them for her,
in a wide pool, deep and clear,far down Withywindle;
there they open first in spring and there they linger latest,
By that pool long ago i found the River-daughter,
fair young Goldberry sitting in the rushes.
Sweet was her singing then,and her heart was beating!

Hey Grondy if you have some you could post them? i would like to see......if anyone have Tom's songs could post them here....... or some about Goldberry.......

The adventures of Tom Bombadil is about 16 of Tolkien's poems, with a couple of the long ones being about our favorite Tom Bomb. The other three stories are also excellent: two are faery tales and the third Leaf by Niggle, is a nice morality story.

My above post was a clarification of Amari’'s post where she listed four titles contained in one volume. My post listed two of them and the other two are the faery tales. You can also get them all, except Smith of Wooton Major in The Tolkien Reader.

See To Make Tolkien's Letters which I built today so everyone can find then easier than if I just posted it here.

Looks great!

mm i think Amari’ is so happy that because we are writing her name.. correctly.....he he he!

yeah Galin also right but i think it would be really nice if we could use those dots.....and Grondy have also posted the key codes........as a Tolkien club it's great to use his language.

he he he! it seems you know Quenya a lot.... how?........ somehow nice to see that you like Tom.....Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow that's why i like him..

yep, wow great i also like to know Elvish .....that's what i am in the class of PT. i think Amari’ is going to do something special.....we have to wait for it....he he he

I would guess maybe this was a mistake (not necessarily CJRT's) but I'm not sure in any case. I wonder if later editions have the same spelling.

Anyway, long vowels should be marked and are also noted when writing in the tengwar. Stress is a different matter, but the primary stress in the four syllable example elent’ri is elentAri because the penult, or second to last syllable, contains a long vowel (one example from Return of the King).

The primary stress in Am’rie is amArie, that's true, but that's because the penult is short.

I like Tom and also he makes me want to run screaming down the road. with his hey rolldee fol jazz. It gets on my last nerve! But he is a tower of strength and fearless, which I greatly admire. I love his love for that beautiful wife of his, theirs is a love affair to remember. And just the way he seems to know everything about everything and yet not worry a tiny bit about bad news, well that is wonderful. I especially hate the color of his boots. But after all he does live in a very lush and green place. So, yes I do like Tom Bombadil. I wonder what Priscillas doll Tom actually looked like?

I have been thinking about our friend Tom the last while and honestly I wish I liked the poems and the way Tom says them, but I don't. I think the only poem period that I liked that JRR wrote was the one attributed I think to Bilbo Baggins of the Shire, the old familiar the dish ran away with the spoon thingy. I am particular of the sort of poetry that touches my heart and I find Tom's way of expressing things so very annoying. (yes yes I can just hear all of you booing at me and throwing something with vigour my direction.) I think I can pin it down a little better by saying that I think Tom himself is pretty marvellous. He seems afraid of absultely nothing , is always joyful and confident and who would not wish to emulate that? and the fact that the ring has no effect whatsoever, nor does Tom seem the least curious or fascinated by it, well that is nothing short of astounding and miraculous. So, in view of these amazing traits I feel he should not sing so juvenile a ditty.

I like Tom's Character but I can't say the same thing about his songs/poems. Nowadays when I read the LOTR book I skip his poems and songs except the rhyme he taught to Frodo in case he needed help.

And hello to you too dearest Sian, I have missed you very much. I think about you so often. Hope things are great.

If you'd meet Tom Bombadil, you would either be quite speechless, or then you would just agree with him, go under a nearby tree, and eat some roasted mushrooms and sing ol' and good travelling songs with him through the long and dark night. And at the sight of morning sun, you would just say:

'Oh geez, what a night, I didn't sleep at all..'

So, thumbs up for Tom Bombadil.

Tom is great; he's one of the best of Tolkien's characters, I think.  If I might be allowed a small correction - the Dutch doll called Tom Bombadil didn't belong to Priscilla; nor did she ask JRR to write a poem about him. The name comes from one of the  stories which Tolkien told to his children, but did'nt write down, some time in the 20s, before Prisca. was born.

The doll belonged to Michael. John apparently took a dislike to the doll, and pushed him down the lavatory. Thankfully, he was rescued without too much damage.

The term 'Dutch doll'  refers to the style of the doll; having jointed wooden arms and legs.

As for Tom - he made his first appearance in the Oxford Magazine in 1934, well before LotR was published. Tolkien was fond of Tom - he published a book of poems in 1962 called 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil', which includes two poems about Tom, and a nice piece in the introduction about his relationships with the hobbits of Buckland - Tolkien says his name is Bucklandish in origin.

I like Tom, and his singing. But, as Ursula le Guin noted in a paper, Tom's whole mode of speech is rhythmic; meant to be read aloud. The best way to appreciate this is to hear it read by Rob Inglis on the LotR tapes. Bombadil is ancient; he doesn't conform to anything else we know. And he is Master - when he says 'Whoa!' to Frodo and Sam, they stop suddenly as if struck. When B. says 'Show me the precious ring', Frodo does so instantly. Look out for that next time you read; everyone and everything does as he says; but no-where do we get the idea that he's forcing anyone - he is Master, and in his realm everything does as he says.

Except the lintips. These little creatures appear in a third Bombadil poem; only ever printed in two obscure books during the 60s, now long out of print. Bombadil seems quite taken with them.

Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow. Tolkien liked him; that's the reason he's in so many of Tolkien's books. But Tolkien isn't giving very much away about Tom - he once wrote that Tom is an enigma - intentionally.

 

 

 

 

Has everybody read The Adventures of Tom Bomabil?....Fascinating information......The fact that Tom & Goldberry were married...(There had been some controversy over this..) ; the fact that Tom regularly visited the Shire, and was a good friend of Farmer Maggott...they often enjoyed a pint of Ale...actually this connection between Tom & Maggott was hinted at in LOTR , i think.....

Also the slightly alarming information that when Tom arrive din the shire, some hobbits shot arrows at him ???!!!.....I guess they could not really have hurt him...lol...