Tom Bombadil's Song, Hey Dol! Merry Dol!

[nodice4423]

@eliasschmisi i know iv read the book several times i messed up what i was trying to say sorry

[Puglord99]

Probably one of the most interesting character in ANY book.

(Grats on no dislikes BTW :D)

[legendarygunslinger]

@Puglord99 never say that. because it has one dislike now :|

[nodice4423]

sorry movies

[nodice4423]

to bad tom was not in the books

[eliasschmisi]

@nodice4423 you're wrong...Frodo meets him, wants to give him the ring but Tom don't want the ring

[marioriospinot]

What a strange person ..archetype.

[brizzlekizzle]

Who is Tom? It was already fully written and described I feel, he was a man in the forest, in such harmony he had power. Tom is who we want to be, happy and free, and just a guess, but I would bet he is is fond of the pipe weed too.

[TalarOun]

Who is Tom Bombadil? Only answer is Tolkien's: Some secrets should never be revealed, even in an fantasy-world.

[TheSillyHobo]

Tom Bombadil is a cheesy man.

[TheSillyHobo]

@TheSillyHobo If man he be.

[theTROLLINGdwarf]

one word... ILLUVITAR

[nerofoxkrell]

i wish they didnt take tom out of the movie he would have made it so much better and less depressing



[TheSillyHobo]

@nerofoxkrell But I'm afraid that if they added him into the movies, people would have been so confused, because Tom Bombadil is a confusing, complex, and odd character.

[amazeroth]

@TheSillyHobo I agree, I think it would have made the movie just more confusing.

[SuperPowerFighter]

you can't dislike THIS...!!! :D what a beutiful song....

[Videot01]

Tom Bombadil is legend.

[Losrandir]

I think if we can't think of Tom, then to hell with us..

[1453turan]

he is fancy part of heart of middle earth

[LuisPBE]

Whilst i enjoyed Tom's appearance in the book, it always seemed rather unnecessary to me so quite understandable why it was cut from the film

[Eneicia2011]

Who sings this?

[Tobbo2]

2:42 what a beautiful voice you have Tom Bombadil!

[Tobbo2]

Hey Do Merry Do Me Hearties! -LOTRO

[opianista81]

Who is singing it?



[SkaDoooche5000]

@opianista81 tom bombadill duh

[stevecapizzi]

I hate to jinx it, but I think it's worth mentioning that this video has 16,000+ views, 0 dislikes, and what I consider to be exclusively positive comments. The power of Tom Bombadil is great indeed. He even suppresses youtube trolls! (hats off to you TB fans)

[TOMISLAVSIMONIS]

i like to drink to this song makes me soo happy :DDDDDD

[khamomilla]

This is very good! :) Nice happy song!

[MrFlyingscotsman1]

Who Sings The Goldberry Part? o_o

Gawd She Sings With An Amazingly High Voice O_O

[Snagprophet]

Tom Bombadil was conceived before Chuck Norris and is infinitely better.

[armeverschrenk]

and at 2:40 it becomes the most epic song i ever heared

[jayoung472]

Forget Chuck Norris jokes---- Tom Bombadil jokes are in!

-It's said that only the fires of Mount Doom can destroy the one ring, but Tom Bombadil can destroy it with his bare hands.

-When Tom Bombadil goes into the Mines of Moria, Balrog hides.

-NO ONE Shall pass... except Tom Bombadil.

-The reason why Lonely Mountain is where it sits is because Tom Bombadil pushed it there.

-Tom Bombadil eats trolls for both breakfast & second breakfast.

[hobofred1000]

best song ever

[goukegirl]

get's all fun and tom bombadilish around 0.56

[Kotlettbengt]

Did JRR Tolkien actually write whole songs with meoldy and everything or did he just write the texts without setting it to music?

[nikolascend]

@Kotlettbengt Just the poetry he wrote...

[BooksandMoreMe]

@Kotlettbengt He wrote only the lyrics. They can be found in the chapter "The Old Forest" in The Fellowship of the Ring; Tom sings them when we first see him encountering the four hobbits during the Old Man Willow episode.

[Kotlettbengt]

@BooksandMoreMe Ok, thanks :) Now, out of curiosity, because I assume you're a fan of the books as you know where to find the song: Do you like that they've set the poetry to music or do you prefer it as poetry without music?

[BooksandMoreMe]

@Kotlettbengt I do like them set to music. They are songs being sung in most cases, but, obviously, musical score was not included with the books. I believe the Tolkien Ensemble did a marvelous job of interpreting the lyrics.

[HanSollo]

@BooksandMoreMe I like some, but others... I just cant take them in, hehe. Maybe because when I used to read the books I would sing them my way, so I like the ones that match what I sang when I read... And this one matches all the way, hehe

[LOSTie1TREKie2]

@BooksandMoreMe I love that part! i love that book too, its so awesome!

[edemardil]

@Kotlettbengt They can be found in almost every chapter. THIS song is in the the First Part, The Fellowship of The Ring.

[Vidyadude]

Tom better be in the new Bilbo movie.

[BooksandMoreMe]

@Vidyadude Where in it?

[SavageBezerkEclipse]

@BooksandMoreMe Exactly, Bilbo didn't know Tom. Tom Bombadil made his appearance in Fellowship of the ring.

Beorn better me in the Hobbit!

[AlaiaViper]

@Vidyadude If you look at the behind the scenes trailers on Peter Jackson's FB page, you will find that they confirm that old Tom is indeed making an appearance,

[TheGobbledeegoop]

@Vidyadude he won't be unless they draw away from the story but that is unlikley because he isin't connected to the hobbit story in any way

[3l3ktr0h34d]

@Vidyadude He won't be.

[KatWolfdancer]

@Vidyadude Unless they allow a *plot hole* and introduce Tom before he has ever made an appearance, we will not see Tom Bombadill. He shows up in Lord of the Rings, and Blbo's story (The Hobbit) occurs fifty years before the LOTR. I was VERY disappointed to find that this scene in the books was one of the cut scenes in the movie, but I can see their point! It was a LONG movie, and that would have made it another 2 hours longer ! (I'd've sat through it, though, how about y'all ??? )

[TommorowISNAP]

@Vidyadude Yes, to gladly announce that he is, a very short scene of the trailer he is shown when he sits on a chair that breaks

[Nuukify]

@TommorowISNAP That was Bombur.

[geiruhl]

@Vidyadude how where and when ? plz read the Hobbit

[ignorantpom]

@geiruhl

Lot o' shit is gonna be in the films that's not in the book. Calm down.

[Puglord99]

@ignorantpom Lol... He was just asking him to read the books before he makes dumbass comments :3

[ignorantpom]

@Puglord99

Alright, jeese...Calm down.

[Puglord99]

@ignorantpom Where are you getting the idea anybody's mad? lol...

[ignorantpom]

@Puglord99

Jeese...What's with all these seething lunatics on here? Must be Tom drawing them.

Just calm down, fella.

[szrsplaythroughs]

@Vidyadude he isnt in the bolbo book, who your thinking of is someone else, whose name i cant remember,

[aHighschoolloser]

Tom Bomadil is frodo. yeah think about that for a bit!

[kamikaze8625]

Must have been really cool for Tom to see the hobbits building their place, and Bree also.

[ImThatCrazyGal]

The Swagmaster of Middle-Earth has arrived, folks. Sauron, consider yourself screwed.

[pompehag]

bet Tom is actually Sauron in disguise wouldnt that be a twist

[amazeroth]

No one know who Tom Bombadil really is or if he is even anything more than just Tom Bombadil. As curious as I am myself, just leave it there, guys. It is better that way :)

[SavageBezerkEclipse]

@amazeroth Exactly, not even Gandalf knows who or what Bombadil is. He just is. Hell, he might even be an angel, due to the power of his music over the plants. As the Angels of Middle earth created life via song.

[edemardil]

@SavageBezerkEclipse Uh...Do you mean one of the Valar or the Maiar? Gandalf, Sauron and Saurman are Maiar where as Morgoth was Valar. Tom is not either in my opinion unless he is as rumor suggests and that is that he is Melkor the Destroyer how he should have been.

[SavageBezerkEclipse]

@edemardil Valar probably, Their singing had power and created things, thats why I suggested it. Toms singing has power over his domain. He might have some of the Valar power or be a lesser Valar..you never know .

[edemardil]

@amazeroth Rumor of him being Melkor aka Morgoth, how he should have been.

[xxXMastahXxx]

I would say Tom is Creation in itself as it is often stated that he came before everything. Either that or he played a big part in creation as such. It is just that neither Gandalf, Elrond, Glorfindel or any of them knows. He is beyond any of their knowledge.

[ImThatCrazyGal]

@xxXMastahXxx I agree with you... I think Tom had more power than what Gandalf, Elrond and Glorfindel knew. It's like Treebeard saying he was the oldest in Middle-Earth, Tolkien stated that that was what Treebeard believed, correctly or not (although it wasn't). I know Tolkien said that Tom and Goldberry weren't Aule and Yavanna, but they were pretty darn close IMO. (Also some of the discrepancies in Tolkien's writing were due to his extreme disorganization- losing his notes, etc)

[benjidrake]

Google the 'Aino Triptych', there's Tom Bombadil.

[BecauseGenitals]

......When people take my earbuds from me to see what im listening to, they always give me weird looks.

Mostly cuz i listen to a lot of Tolkien music XDD

[xBeckyxAlicex]

I like tom bombadil, he is sou funny^^

[JORDANYATES]

No one can verify what Tom actually is I vote earth/nature spirit, Glorfindel states that Sauron could destroy the hills and therfore defeat Tom and if he is "first" before the coming of Melkor and the other Valar how could he be Maia? The Eru theory is just bleh, totally out of sync with the lore of Arda.

[Yannick20]

Bombadil is just a Maia, like Goldberry, Gandalf, Saruman and even Sauron.

[Waldvogel91]

this is the best thing ever!

[Losrandir]

Tom Bombadil isn't Eru. Those who say so are just humans taking things your way. And may I say, it is quite a farce. :)

[foreverolf]

Yes - Tom is Eru. hidden in plain sight. nice to hear.

[America2470]

Tom Bombadil is Eru. 

[MotiCompleto008]

@America2470 I would love to hear the theory behind that :)

[America2470]

@MotiCompleto008 Theory?? No, not. FACT! He is the One or Adam and Goldberry is Eve. I have so many theories..

[MotiCompleto008]

@America2470 Where did you read that fact then?

[BooksandMoreMe]

@America2470 I'm with MotiCompleto008; I would like to know where to find that info. I am always happy to learn more about anything Tolkien's written.

[America2470]

@BooksandMoreMe If you don't mind reading alot, there is this awesome essay by Gene Hargrove. Called, Who is Tom Bombadil. it's well written and is very interesting. But Tom Bombadil is and always will be an Enigma, which keeps us talking about him. And I think Tolkien knew that would happen, thats why Tom is one of my favorite characters. :)

[dsriharsha]

@America2470 nope. Eru literally means "He that is alone" in Elvish. Amd Tom Bombadil has a companion

[America2470]

@dsriharsha It's only a theory my friend. He might be the spirit of Nature itself, thats why Goldberry is his wife. But Tom said he was in Arda before the first came, meaning the Vala. So this might add credence to the thought of him being the spirit of Nature. Or one of the nameless things that were borne in the first acts of the Ainulindalë just not an evil crazed one what eats the Earth's roots.

[Cathain78]

@America2470

I'm afraid not. If he was Eru wouldn't he have a place in the Council of the Wise?

Yet Gandalf said there would be no point in inviting him since he wouldn't come and wouldn't understand the nature of the situation. Lack of understanding is hardly something we would credit to the omnipotent and all-knowing creator of the universe ;-) The RL fact is that Bombadil originated in a different story and Tolkein transplanted into LOTR. Lore-wise, I'd say a nature spirit.

[iwpoe]

@Cathain78 I don't know. There is a certain sense in which I think one could rightly say that god doesn't understand the affairs of men. Nothing can be very pressing for god: he doesn't have deadlines and he can't be worried or doubtful. It's not a lack of understanding in the sense that god is ignorant; it's a lack of understanding in the sense that god would not share in our anxiety or in the felling of a pressing need to accomplish something.

[Cathain78]

@iwpoe

Interesting comments. There's two ways of looking at this. If we are speaking of Eru in Tolkein's universe then that might be the case, but he isn't the only being who would share that view. For instance oldberry seems similarly unconcerned and we might expect many of the Maia to not share the same worries and anxieties that affect mortals. In a RL view, it's different. However, from a Christian perspective since God became incarnate, then he shared the same traits & concerns as Man.

[iwpoe]

@Cathain78 The question of the implications for the incarnation is (1) hotly contested in the history of Christian theology and (2) not simple to resolve. It's very hard to read Jesus in the Gospels. The Jesus of John and Mark in particular is quite aloof in a certain way and it's quite easy to imagine that this is a man apart for whom normal kinds of concern are insignificant. That's some of the point of conversations about, for example "lilies of the field". And that's just in the Gospels.

[iwpoe]

@Cathain78 Apart from the Gospels, it's hard for me to imagine Christ being consulted for a mission like that of the war of the ring. Again, the sense in which I am saying "God does not understand" in Christian parlance would amount to saying that God shares no part of man's depravity, and while he surely is not unaware of it, it cannot be for him what it is for man: Christ does not need to redeem himself.

[SentinelPL]

@America2470

Tom Bombadil is Tom Bombadil.

This is unique character, that can't be classified

[SvartNezmar]

@America2470 Tom Bombadil is Tulkas!

[Eledian14]

@America2470 I´m so sorry, but Tolkien said once,that Tom Bombadil isn´t Eru but he never said what Tom Bombadil is. Maybe he is an Valar, who was never in Valinor.

I hope there is no fail in the text cause I´m an German one.

[UrogHai]

@Eledian14 In one of his letters, Tolkien referred to Tom Bombadil as the spirit of the vanishing countryside. He seems to be some sort of nature-spirit, perhaps one of the Maiar, but unaffiliated with any of the Valar.

[UrogHai]

@America2470 Except he's not. Eru quite explicitly does not enter Eä. But nice try.

[shadowsabere]

@America2470 why do you think so ?

[sartanko]

@America2470

Really?

[erasmus186]

@America2470

This is not sure. I think it's more probable that Tolkien has included himself in the story.

[Wildolph]

@America2470 Tom Bombadil is Probably Aüle

[alexgodfather94]

@America2470 no he's not, tolkien dismissed the idea. he is either a valar or a maia. there is no embodiment of iluvatar

[ManWithoutAnyLuck]

@America2470 are you serious? i mean.. i often wondered who he is, but iluvatar himself?

[3l3ktr0h34d]

@ManWithoutAnyLuck No one truly knows about Bombadil.. Not even Tolkien. He said: "Some thing should remain a mystery.. Even to the writer." Bombadil was meant to be an enigma.

[ManWithoutAnyLuck]

@3l3ktr0h34d Thanks a lot. I often wondered but i've always forgotten to look it up.

PS: sorry for any grammatical mistakes i'm from germany and my english isn't that well as it was once..

[TheIKAMUZU]

@America2470 He is?

[DemiathDoomhammer]

@America2470 - No, he's not Eru Iluvatar. And he's not a Vala. Or a maia either. he's something else.. I think, if Tolkien could hear us, I'm pretty sure what he would say: "He is the embodiment of Nature itself." Tolkien loved trees all his life, and he hated machines. Tom is simply his way of saying "Don't mess with Nature, or it will fight back!"

[TheCDRIVE22]

@DemiathDoomhammer - I like your theory, but I think that Tolkien left Tom as an enigma for the reader to decide what or who he is. Some say that he is Eru but has basically given up due to of all of the corruption in the world, that is why he resides only in his forrest. I don't even think Tolkien knew for sure what exactly Tom was so how can we, mere readers of the most epic books in the world presume to know what the author who created them did not? Either way I think each person must choose

[alitllebitemo]

Long Tom, hoppalong Fellelloello!

[Esyllt14]

This song makes me so happy !

[Witchmaster1875]

I just love this song :D

[sinjako]

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