huinare: (radagast)
[livejournal.com profile] bunn kindly apprised me of the existence of this Bombadil speculation.

Thoughts:

- Many of the respondents have taken this way too seriously (particularly Mr. Osborne on pg. 6).   I don't see any assertion on the author's part that this interpretation is the best one or even a tenable one; I just see a wonderfully creative and unique (albeit dark--but obviously that's why I like it) approach to Old Tom here.

- This seriously would make for an excellent "AU" story.  I'd read the h*ll out of it.

- An anon on pg 5 says: Doctor Who related commentary, cut for space )

- This caused me to (I think re-) read this one: "Who Is Tom Bombadil?"  So now I'm just going to say that "Tom and Goldberry are actually Aulë and Yavanna" makes least sense to me out of all the speculations.  Aulë?  I'll accept the "Tom is Eru" line before I accept a conflation of Aulë with Tom Bombadil.

- I just wrote a crack!thing.  It's not fancy, but it's the first thing I've written in weeks and it addresses my thoughts on the Aulë-as-Bombadil speculation more amusingly than a nonfiction rant would.
Sauron and Saruman weigh in on Bombadil )

Eismann

Feb. 5th, 2012 03:09 pm
huinare: (gethen)
I decided the internet needed to know that I keep seeing Anke Eismann's art floating around and that I think it's pretty cool.  I am extremely fond of angular, severe, vaguely creepy aesthetics.  Her work fits the bill (well, I find many of the eyes a bit too creepy and verging on unsettlingly comical, but if one pretends they don't have eyes...)  Her Faramir actually looks like Faramir's supposed to look *glowers in movie-Faramir's blonde direction*. 

And, this has got to be the only picture of Tom Bombadil I've seen that makes him look imposing and reverend even as he still looks kinda goofy and cuddly.  Impressive.  --->  It won't allow direct links to the image, it's about one third of the way down this page.

I didn't have a Tom Bombadil tag before now?  For some reason, this perplexes me..

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