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

Tolkien Ensemble

An Evening in Rivendell


Tolkien's poetry put to music

Category:

Music

Tags:

• poetry
• tolkien
• middle-earth

[Kotlettbengt]

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

[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.

[Vidyadude]

Tom better be in the new Bilbo movie.

[BooksandMoreMe]

@Vidyadude Where in it?

[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]

@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]

@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.

[edemardil]

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

[edemardil]

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

[ignorantpom]

@Puglord99

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

Just calm down, fella.

[Puglord99]

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

[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.

[ignorantpom]

@Puglord99

Alright, jeese...Calm down.



[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.