early_riser@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 20 天前It's funny the only adaptation or derivative of LOTR that I'm aware of that keeps Tom Bombadil is the outrageous parody Bored of the Rings where he's a drug-tripping hippie named Tim Benzedrinemessage-squaremessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up184arrow-down1message-squareIt's funny the only adaptation or derivative of LOTR that I'm aware of that keeps Tom Bombadil is the outrageous parody Bored of the Rings where he's a drug-tripping hippie named Tim Benzedrineearly_riser@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 20 天前message-square16linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareInfrapink@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10·20 天前Tom’s incongruity is entirely deliberate. Tolkien worked out Middle Earth in meticulous detail, but thought that a truly believable mythology needed to have a few mysteries, hence Tom.
minus-squareXenny@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 天前Ironically cutting him out of the movies like this sort of adds to his mythology
Tom’s incongruity is entirely deliberate. Tolkien worked out Middle Earth in meticulous detail, but thought that a truly believable mythology needed to have a few mysteries, hence Tom.
Ironically cutting him out of the movies like this sort of adds to his mythology