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[rec.arts.books.tolkien] Bombadil - something different in Middle earth.
On 26 Sep 1997 22:42:01 -0700, in alt.humor.best-of-usenet Kettir
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Subject: Re: Bombadil - something different in Middle earth.
>From: Bill <[email protected]>
>Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien
>
>Fiver wrote:
>
>> David Salo wrote:
>>
>> > No! Tom is Melian! :) (Along the lines of 'two persons who are
>> never
>> > seen in the same place at the same time').
>> >
>>
>> wow! just a thought, but maybe GOLDBERRY is melian. in the Sil,
>> doesn't
>> it say she wandered off in grief after thingol was killed? perhaps
>> she
>> passed over the mountains and into tom's country. after all, she
>> wasn't
>> with tom in the beginning. tom says he found her one day sitting by a
>> pool
>> singing. kinda reminds you of how thingol met her, doesn't it?
>>
>>
>
>No no no no NO!! Bombadil is BILL GATES. Biding his time, waiting for
>Sauron to fall so that he could become the next Dark Lord. He didn't
>take the Ring because it was Sauron's- after he had quickly examined it
>he went back and in the early Fourth Age made a Bracelet of Power-- and
>asserted of course that there was no infringement of intellectual
>property rights. Of course, Bracelet 1.0 was a buggy kludge, and he had
>to keep trying: Bracelet 3, Bracelet 3.1, Bracelet NT, Bracelet 95-
>before he got a fully functional instrument of world domination.
>
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