Ok, that was awesome. I don't buy it at all (if Sauron was indeed a threat to Tom, or if Tom could be bound by the art of the Valar, I feel as though the ring would effect him as well), but it was a really fun read.

A fun thought invoked by this, and given Tolkien's intent to create a creation myth for our Earth, is somewhere out there Tom still sits in his forest, waiting, for when the might of the Valar fades. Feels almost Lovecraftian.

Oh, if you're also in Lovecraftian horrors you should read this paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8144

"Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific"