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Is it just me or does this tom bombarding character look a bit like Robin williams?

It’s possible that he is one of the Ainur, who usually come in pairs, like the Valar (eg. Manwe and Varda) or perhaps he is the representation of Eru Iluvatar in Middle Earth making sure that he has not forgotten his second born.

He is the embodiment of the creators song itself..think on it😮

The only fatherless being in the universe is God / Eru. The Catholic Blessed Trinity comprises God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Tolkien said the Holy Spirit was the Secret Fire / Flame Imperishable, in his pre-Christian legendarium. Therefore Tom is the manifestation of the Secret Fire, and Gandalf is his servant.

Hes probably the 'avatar' of that part of Middle Earth itself. Hes oldest because he IS the land. He is Master because he IS the land. And his knowledge fails east of his area of influence. He basically is Arnor or close enough, understanding that the human country would be coincidence or based on Tom in this theory and im not saying Tom is the manifestation of a human country from early but not earliest ages.

He is the personification of the Secret Fire that Eru Iluvitar sent into Arda.

The ting did seem to work fine in Tom's land, just not on Tom. When Frodo got it back it made him invisible still.

Tom is Middle Earth. He was the embodiment of the song of creation. The ring is magic not of this world. It cannot affect Tom and interests him even less.

I have a different theory. tolkien always said that everything he wrote became somehow drawn into the great mythology he created. another creation outside of the legendarium seems to fit the bill very well. Especially in temrs of being drawn into the great cycle of his mythos. I contend that Bombadil is Niggle. drawn into that world. his effoerts on earth and in purgatory earned him the right to be born again as a gardner or husbandman of the landscape which grew from the leaf. Bombadil is Niggle and his litle kingdom is the landscape over which he gained. the right of husbandry Only my theory based on scant evidence. However it is to me a very satisfying theory. What do you think?

Tom was in the world, not of the world. I can kinda relate.

actually the Nazgul can see Frodo when he puts The Ring on And this is a clue I think to Tom's nature. He can see the Material World and The Unseen World. He was there before Time according to his own words. And he controls creation through Song. That would suggest that he is a Vala. He is a Vala in disguise, in just the same way that Gandalf is a Maia in disguise.

Robbin williams as tom bombadill in the original LOTR movies would have been just perfect.

Loving this new Tolkien channel. Great format on the videos!! An interesting new view on Tolkiens world Keep up the great work guys. I look forward to more content. ♫♫ The road goes ever on and on ... ♫♫

Perhaps Goldberry is the soul of the Old Forest and Tom, (the Spell of Creation) fell in love with her.

I think it is a mistake to assume that simply because Gandalf and Saruman as Maia can be tempted by the ring that Bombadil, who is not affected by it is not a Maia as the Istari were clothed in human form and had reduced powers. That is not to say he is.

Tom is Eru in disguise……

Thumbnail looks like robin williams as Tom. That would have been something for sure

Awesome. Thank you 🙏

"Do you think Tom Bombadil, the spirit of the (vanishing) Oxford and Berkshire countryside, could be made into the hero of a story?" Letter 19, 16 December 1937 "And even in a mythical Age there must be some enigmas, as there always are. Tom Bombadil is one (intentionally)." Letter 144, 25 April 1954

No clips of Rory Kinnear as TB? Is that a political statement? Whether we like it or not he is now the live action version of TB. I personally would have preferred Derek Jacobi or Brian Cox or even Brendan Gleeson.

If Tom was one of the unintended results of the song of the Ainur it would explain why song is how he expresses himself. Or in the way Ungoliant was a manifestation of the darkness or the un-light, perhaps she is in a way a shadow cast by the light of Tom, two sides of the same coin. He watched Aule build the mountains and carve the seas, maybe he is the personification of what Arda was before Melkor marred it. He can't really conceive of malice or deceit for the same reasons the naive Ainur released Melkor from his imprisonment. Which perhaps is also why the concept of power or dominion isn't in his mind. His concept of time is measured in eons, his concept of space is infinite and doesn't hinder him. Tom doesn't show up when Frodo sings his song because he has really good hearing and he's super fast, he appears to them as if space and time weren't things that he had to give thought to. So maybe he IS the natural world, he is everything, everywhere, all at once. He was born when time began and will pass on (not die) when all things end. Final thought: It's possible the moniker of "Oldest and fatherless" was just an expression, but Illuvitar means "father of all", so if the elves are correct (they hung with the gods so they should know) then Tom has always been. If he witnessed the first of everything, then maybe he is the pen and paper Tolkien wrote his stories on...So he really would have been present before all things, there was nothing, then there was something. So he's the Big Bang of the Tolkien Universe. That may be a stretch but it makes as much sense as anything else.

Can't wait for more videos

It truly saddens me knowing I'll never get to hear Robin Williams sing "HEY DOL MERRY DOL" while prancing about carrying water lilies to Goldberry and freeing halflings from evil trees.

Your criteria for Gandalf don't fit all Maiar; look at the Maiar Radagast, Saruman, or Sauron. So based just on those criteria, Tom cannot be ruled out. Having said that though, I don't believe Tom is a Maia. I think that Goldberry and Tom represent nature, and man living in harmony with nature. Tom has some mastery over nature, but it is in the form of gentle guiding and soothing, not force or exploitation.

It's me.

not AI using Robin Williams as Tom Bombadil?!?!

Hurin and his family are the reason I derive so much enjoyment from reading of Morgoth's fall in the War of Wrath.

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I love that hes physically powerful and intimidating,but his favorite pastime is fucking with people.

I'd like to know something more mundane. If Eru had 2 children of his own, and dwarves by adoption, where do hobbits come from? Are they some distant branching of the edain? Well done, btw. Narration with feeling and drama is good to find

I'll be keeping my eye on you.

Consider me sub number 220. Keep up the solid content m8, with all the petty bickering between ROP and LOTR, it's nice to sit back and enjoy some good Tolkien content that's solely based on the material.

Poor Glaurung, he was such a good boy. Even in his last moments, all he wanted to do was re-unite two long lost siblings that had been seeking one another for many years and give his congradulations to a very sweet girl he met long ago on her recent nuptials, despite her having married his mortal enemy (now that's classy manners for ya), from a certain point of view.... a very draconic point of view as a matter of fact. Why, he even went so far to break the memory spell that had caused her so much woe; a curse cast by the Dark Lord himself was undone in one final act of redemptive selflessness. And so passed Glaurung the Glorious; Reptile of Redemption, Father of Dragons, Son of Morgoth, Bestest Guardian Dragon, the Wisest Wyrm, the Most Merciful of Monsters, and a true hero of the First Age. Poisoned by his enemies until even Turin Turncloak could slay him, yet as a true altruist whom valued all life he so kind as to use his own blood as a sedative so that his slayer need not suffer the agont of the injuries the Dragon had earlier dealt his foe during the duel. Many millenia later, his example still inspired descendants of the First Dragon such as Smaug the Selfless whom would later liberate an entire region from the economical tyranny inflicted upon countless peasants by a criminal empire of greedy loansharking and racketeering dwarves led by an oathbreaker that had already betrayeted one peaceful neighbor and taxed the others so cruelly that it was said that there existed mountains of treasure that could fill up even the largest castle with gold from loor to ceiling and from dungeon to watchtower while the people were so poor they could only afford to live on barges floating on lakes rather than live directly on land upon Dwarven turf. Smaug, in an act of valor, would single handedly challenge the Erebor Monopoly and face these heartless thugs in open combat. Thousands of killers armed with the finest weapons and clad in the most expensive armor would try their hand at slaying this brave beast only to fail, sinking so long as to throw their wives and children at him to slow the Red Redeemer while the corrupt king and his kin fled. Unable to see the features of such a small species, the Anti-Tyranical Titan unknowing slew these distractions thinking them more dwarven gangsters. Left surrounded by gold enough to feed all the peoples, dragons, and the horses of Middle Earth for decades; Smaug the Selfless Serpent decided to slow pass out the wealth to the Mayor of the local lake town once a decade so as to not collapse the ecomony of the land and then, grief stricken from the civilian lives he was forced to take, the Remorseful Red Dragon entered into a deep, deep sleep caused by his depression. He would laze about for decades, guarding the breadbox of the lands from thieves and suffering in stoic silence from the traumas inflicted upon a heart too big for this cruel world by a sinister yet sly syndicate of smallfolk whom had ruled the mountain he was now sentenced to stay within by his own sense of sympathy. Later, Smaug the Sad would be assaulted in his sleep by several burglars sent by the son and chief enforcer of the deposed dwarven tyrant; they hounded and struck him cruelly from hidden tunnels too small and well hidden for him to reach, even trying to drown him in molten gold to turn Smaug the Unnecessibly Sweet into a gaudy trophy then tricked him into burning a local town only to surprise the Firedrake Freedom-Fighter by shooting the unarmed reptile in his heroic heart; a target sadly too large to miss. Let it be known that one unarmed hero stood against many tresspassers and thieves without a weapon or armor of his own, despite being caught unawares in his sleep Smaug Longsnored fought for hours in cramped conditions and never retreated; even when burnt and blinded by trickery, he stood against the greed of tyrants until betrayed by the Mayor whom had aided him when the man cospired with the criminals to assassinate the Friendly Firedrake in a trap that sacrificed many of his constituants to a blinded, burned, and battered dragon so that a dragonslayer codenamed "the Bard" could fire a giant scorpion bolt into the heart of the sweetest soul to ever slither out of the north; all for more gold, truly greed is the sickness of men and dwarves that shatters mountains, steals homes, and slays even the most selfless, and sizable, of heroes. Hail Smaug the Selfless Serpent, the Winged Wonder, Sultan of Sleep, Duke of Deepfried Dwarves, Princeling of Piety, Baronet of Broke Bastards, Lord of Longnaps, Terror of Tyrants, Red Reckoning of Racketeers, Protector of the Poor, and the Lone Lizard of Logic; we shall never see his like again, may his legend serve to inspire a new generation of Heroic Hatchlings to become one of the Fiend Frying Flamming Freedom Fighting Federal Firedrake Firebrigade From Faroff.

So, was this the end of the first age? What happened to Melkor's army after this fearsome general was felled... I can't imagine the Valar just sat and watched this all unfold, or did they?

Amazing !!!!

Where did you get the pictures for the videos?

For me it seems like Glaurung looks more like a crocodile rather than a dragon with vings.

one of the things that always got me about glaurung is how he was even created...if morgoth couldnt create because and could only corrupt how did glaurung come about?

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Malice of Sauron, why such a question? A Maia with shape-shifting abilities, he was also a fire spirit, and it is said that he was the strongest and most powerful among them. His name was Mairon. He learned blacksmithing knowledge from Aule (Vala). And served as: Vala Melkor's chief lieutenant. Melkor (also known as Morgoth chaos and destruction).

I must admit, I'm very impressed with this video. Being a huge fan of the Tolkien Universe I suck up all different channels that have different stories different perspectives and different objectives.... I just can't get enough of the different presentations of his works by other huge fans. That being said, I'm very appreciative that I stumbled upon your video because it is probably pound for pound the best video that I have ever seen in regards to any of tolkien's works.... The storytelling in this video of Glaurung and Turin is prolifically masterful.... The storyteller tells the tale with the most utmost high quality unparalleled by anything that I have heard.... In addition, the sequence of the storytelling along with the images in the screen is equally prolific which brought about a very stunning video and to top it off is the visuals along with the storytelling and the sequences like a perfect orchestra to display an effect and bring to life the story if Glaurung and Turin.... I don't throw these compliments around lightly.... Like I said I am deeply impressed and appreciative of your work so I have liked and subscribed not only will I put this video in my save category so I can go back and watch it again but I will fervently check your channel for other videos that I will look toward with delight in anticipation of watching... A deep and heartfelt salute to this channel for an epic work superbly and masterfully done.

It was his master Morgoth that filled the dragon with evil spirits to further his will. It would have been interesting if the dragon was able at some point to overcome the evil in him and turn on his master in an act of redemption if he had not been killed but I guess this was impossible as he was only evil in his creation.

Glaurung is one of the few entities of Middle Earth that gives me the shivers of true evil. Wielding his psychic powers to take away the agency of both Turin and Nienor is by itself one of the most heinous acts imaginable, but he took it one abhorrent step further by revealing to them his deceit and manipulation to devastating effect. One of the darkest and most tragic moments in Tolkien's works. Fantastic first video! Very well done. Looking forward to more.

I know it might be a bit early but do a video on the Dagor Dagorath and Turin's restoration and his ultimate revenge against Morgoth.

Glaurung was not more manipulative than Sauron

Solid first entry

Glad I found this channel on its beginnings 😁 Hope you gonna continue your work and grow in time 🙂 well done vid

I would guess that the Irish myth of the Formorian "Balor of the Baleful Eye", (whose gigantic single eyelid took several men to lift, but had devastating destructive properties when opened) was an influence, along with Medusa, and a few others from different European myth.

So glad I found this! Would be great for a studio to properly bring stories from the sirmaiom to screen - but in 2024 I fear any studio trying to put this into a movie or show would mess it up

What a voice! Subscribing!