Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series

Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @01:03PM (#31990786)

> Tom Bomb[a]dil, he was a strange character even for Tolkien's universe and was rumored to be a demi-god.

The theory is usually that he's one of the major gods, not a demigod.

I feel like there was a Maia who mated with an elf, but I don't remember with any certainty. Demigods aren't a major feature of the world.

EDIT: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Melian is the Maia who mated with an elf. Their daughter, Luthien, is a normal elf, in much the same way that Elrond is a normal elf while Elros is a normal Numenorean. (Though Luthien doesn't seem to have been given a choice.)

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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by philsnow on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @03:18PM (#31992507)

> The theory is usually that he's one of the major gods, not a demigod

It's probably too blatant for Tolkien to have cone up with but Tom Bombadil has the same number of letters in first/second names as Eru Iluvatar. The ring has absolutely zero effect on him, but that would probably be true of any of the Valar just as much as Eru himself.

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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by red369 on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @02:50AM (#31997614)

I think the theory that Tom Bombadil is Eru is fun, but in letter 181, Tolkien said: “There is no ’embodiment’ of the Creator anywhere in this story or mythology.”

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