windandwater: lies replied to your photo: I always liked this passage. You know, strangely…
You know, strangely enough, I don’t think I ever noticed it much. I liked the idea of them listening to Tom tell stories all day and their minds wandering a bit during the dark parts, and I always wanted to know some of the ones he told them, but nothing in the passage ever jumped out at me.
Until now. I really thought that I had exhausted every beautiful passage that I wanted to post about and that I would have to figure out something else to blog about during this read-through. I should’ve known better. I’ve gone through the ones I’ve always loved, certainly, but now I’m finding new ones I never noticed. I know logically there must be a limit to them but I’m apparently nowhere near finding it.
On reason I like that passage is that I’m very much a Hargrovian on the question of Bombadil’s identity (having come to the same view years before reading Who is Tom Bombadil?, for exactly the same reasons cited by Hargrove). So it’s cool to imagine Tom singing to them, and drifting back to those events he remembers firsthand, and which for him were already a recapitulation of the Music of the Ainur even then.
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