Heh! I hadn't heard of that post before, it's amazing. I love the idea of dark lord Bombadil. It's hilarious yet also ominious. Imagine being tortured by someone who keeps laughing and making silly rhymes about said torture. This is how I imagine it. Which might actually be more frightning than a serious dark lord who actually seems to care about your lack of wellbeing. Ahem.
I've always gone for the idea that Tom a very powerful Ainu unassociated with any side in particular - I believe there is a line somewhere about the spirits and came into the world and lived in the land or something like that. One quite possibly as powerful as the Valar but simply a lot less interested in participating. Can't think of what it was exactly, but...I like the Eru theory too. God as a merciless, terrifyingly cheerful quiet observer of everything going on around him is quite dark, actually. I mean, that makes his eternal good cheer and laughter rather obscene. "hahah I'm totes repsonsible for melkor and death you guys haha I guess you'll just have to suffer while I watch heybomodillo ringadillo! Oops almost got choked by a tree huh? Must really suck huh? Haha!" For some reason that reminds me of Sunday in Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday.
Lemme quote the quote I posted from that book a while ago; “Now absent-mindedness is just a bit too awful in a bad man. We think of a wicked man as vigilant. We can’t think of a wicked man who is honestly and sincerely dreamy, because we daren’t think of a wicked man alone with himself. An absentminded man means a good-natured man. It means a man who, if he happens to see you, will apologise. But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries the nerves, abstraction combined with cruelty. Men have felt it sometimes when they went through wild forests, and felt that the animals there were at once innocent and pitiless. They might ignore or slay. How would you like to pass ten mortal hours in a parlour with an absent-minded tiger?”
I feel like that is what Dark Lord Bombadil would be like. :P
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I've always gone for the idea that Tom a very powerful Ainu unassociated with any side in particular - I believe there is a line somewhere about the spirits and came into the world and lived in the land or something like that. One quite possibly as powerful as the Valar but simply a lot less interested in participating. Can't think of what it was exactly, but...I like the Eru theory too. God as a merciless, terrifyingly cheerful quiet observer of everything going on around him is quite dark, actually. I mean, that makes his eternal good cheer and laughter rather obscene. "hahah I'm totes repsonsible for melkor and death you guys haha I guess you'll just have to suffer while I watch heybomodillo ringadillo! Oops almost got choked by a tree huh? Must really suck huh? Haha!" For some reason that reminds me of Sunday in Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday.
Lemme quote the quote I posted from that book a while ago;
“Now absent-mindedness is just a bit too awful in a bad man. We think of a wicked man as vigilant. We can’t think of a wicked man who is honestly and sincerely dreamy, because we daren’t think of a wicked man alone with himself. An absentminded man means a good-natured man. It means a man who, if he happens to see you, will apologise. But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries the nerves, abstraction combined with cruelty. Men have felt it sometimes when they went through wild forests, and felt that the animals there were at once innocent and pitiless. They might ignore or slay. How would you like to pass ten mortal hours in a parlour with an absent-minded tiger?”
I feel like that is what Dark Lord Bombadil would be like. :P