The story also includes a fan favorite character omitted from the previous films, Tom Bombadil.
Not this fan. I bounced off the books so many times in my teenage years, because they were this great iconic series that defined a genre. And then suddenly there’s a comic relief bit. Every time I got there, I put the book down assuming there would just be more of it to come. It was only when I mentioned my frustration with it to someone and they told me it’s just that one scene, that I forced myself through it
Suffice to say, I won’t be rushing to see a Tom Bombadil movie…
I only got as far through the books as I did because I was commuting 2 hours a day and needed something to occupy my brain during the 100 miles of driving I was doing each day. Didn’t finish the third book because that job I was commuting to ended up making up a reason to fire me when I was about a week away from finishing it, and I just didn’t feel like slogging through the remaining 8 hours on my own time
Tom Bombadil and the Barrow Wight are honestly both really memorable parts of the book. Tom Bombadil happened to just be an ancient spirit that had aligned values with the hobbits and clearly used a form of magick heavily infused with music. He showed up just as the peril was becoming more than the hobbits could handle at that stage and happened to be the one force strong enough to protect them as they had to quickly learn the scale and scope of the peril they faced.
I’m disappointed he was cut from the films, but I get why they did cut him from the already 3+ hour long film
Not this fan. I bounced off the books so many times in my teenage years, because they were this great iconic series that defined a genre. And then suddenly there’s a comic relief bit. Every time I got there, I put the book down assuming there would just be more of it to come. It was only when I mentioned my frustration with it to someone and they told me it’s just that one scene, that I forced myself through it
Suffice to say, I won’t be rushing to see a Tom Bombadil movie…
I only got as far through the books as I did because I was commuting 2 hours a day and needed something to occupy my brain during the 100 miles of driving I was doing each day. Didn’t finish the third book because that job I was commuting to ended up making up a reason to fire me when I was about a week away from finishing it, and I just didn’t feel like slogging through the remaining 8 hours on my own time
Tom Bombadil and the Barrow Wight are honestly both really memorable parts of the book. Tom Bombadil happened to just be an ancient spirit that had aligned values with the hobbits and clearly used a form of magick heavily infused with music. He showed up just as the peril was becoming more than the hobbits could handle at that stage and happened to be the one force strong enough to protect them as they had to quickly learn the scale and scope of the peril they faced.
I’m disappointed he was cut from the films, but I get why they did cut him from the already 3+ hour long film