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Re:Bombadillo: a non-web browser by gumby on Thursday November 26, 2020 @04:38PM (#25223708)
He is truly the master of his domain: the ring, Gandalf’s spells, etc have no his realm. I always felt he was a survivor or holdover from an earlier age, and akin to a god.
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Re:Bombadillo: a non-web browser by edgyquant on Thursday November 26, 2020 @09:30PM (#25225110)
He’s definitely more powerful than a Maia (as the ring has no effect.). My headcanon is he’s either Eru himself or an insert of Tolkien, hence why he has no wish to stop Sauron (because he wants the story to unfold.)
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Re:Bombadillo: a non-web browser by gumby on Thursday November 26, 2020 @11:58PM (#25225655)
Or the acts of short-lived beings like elves or wizards who can only live for millennia or less are simply hard for him to take seriously
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Re:Bombadillo: a non-web browser by freetonik on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:21AM (#25227718)
>he’s either Eru himself or an insert of Tolkien

Or he is both, because Eru is an insert of Tolkien. Or, rather, Eru is Tolkien by definition.

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