Any reader of The Lord of the Rings had experienced the same feeling of strangeness when, still in the early stages of the great adventure in Middle-earth, a character suddenly appeared in the pages of The Fellowship of the Ring that escaped the entire narrative structure of the trilogy.
Quickly those doubts turn into curiosity, which evolves into a sudden need to know more about that character. Because his disruptive capacity is as powerful as his mysterious nature, giving rise to an attractive narrative object that behaves the same way as a shooting star.
It appears, shines, and is lost again in immensity.
So who is Tom Bombadil?
Let's put him in context.
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