Is it possible to make an Old Man Willow we'd have to fight??? Because that would be awesome to fight with Tom Bombadil!!!!! I'll be watching this mod, hope to see it become even better!
Erm, That first picture is just wrong. In the books the hobbits were being entangled by hentai type willow tentacles when Tom Bombadil turned up to save them with his soothing words and herbs. Please don't propagate the myth they just turned up at his doorstep for a quick crack fix to sustain them through their journey.
As I can remember, after he saved the hobbits, he went forward, and waited for them at his house. It's not my own picture, and I think it is an illustration of that scene when the hobbits behold the house. Of course he is an important segment of the story, thats why I creared this mod D
Yep, you are right. Page 123 of my old book, including the strange furtive noises running among the bushes and reeds.
So basically Tom saved them and buggered off back to his house to cook up a nice stew or something involving more "mushrooms" - considering Farmer Maggot had already forced feed them some a chapter earlier, there is a lot of implied drug abuse and tentacles in this story.
XD Well I've never wondered of the mushrooms, and "tentacles" from this perspective. And it's kinda funny and odd, if Tolkien made such references with a purpose...
Hi spoonsinger. I think maybe you're confused. I had purchased the large single volume of the Lord of the Rings decades before the films came out, and I read it about every year. Just finished it again the other day. When the hobbits were lost in the Old Forest, Bombadil saved them from Old Man Willow. No herbs. He carried a leaf with water-lillies on it for Goldberry. No hentai tentacles were involved, although Frodo was pushed into the Withywindle river by Old Man Willow's roots and held down. Old Man Willow put a spell of sorts on all of them that made them hot and sleepy. Pippin and Merry were trapped by the tree's trunk. Bombadil made the Willow release them; those two hobbits were being literally engulfed- devoured if you will- by the tree, not wrapped in tentacles. Bombadil put his mouth to a crack in the tree and tried to sing them out. When singing into the tree didn't work, he broke a stick on Old man Willow and commanded him to release the hobbits and go back to sleep, and yanked Merry free. Old Man Willow then spat out Pippin. Then he told the hobbits to follow him home and told them to hurry after him. He didn't just split. The hobbits tried to keep up and couldn't. Then they feasted on many things. No mushrooms, no drug references of herbs other than "green herbs" on the dinner table laden with honeycomb, cream, bread, butter, and other mundane things. And no mushrooms, and no tentacles. You're putting quite a spin on things and making things up perhaps. While you're schooling people, try to get the story straight yourself.
I suspect your copy of the book had been edited for family consumption. Probably best just burning it and get the three original books in hardback. If nothing else they'll look better on your bookshelf. After that get a dictionary and look up the word 'whoosh'
Spoonsinger. The "three original books" you mention shows your grasp of the Lord of The Rings. It is *not* three books. It has been for years called a *trilogy" and that is incorrect. It is a single novel, broken up into *six* sections called "books" which had two volumes each, and it contains appendices.
The version I have is the large red-bound leather hardcover with dust case collector's edition. Looks great on my bookshelf, thanks. It was printed by the same *original printer* as was first used in the US in the 1950s, and contains no corrections, no additions, and no re-spellings, as happened several times with original printings, in which publishers "corrected" Tolkien's use of "elven" etc. Mine is a second edition printed in 1974.
My version is the *correct* one. Since you think it is "three books", you should toss out your own copies, buy ISBN 0-395-19395-8, and read the actual *book* this time. Break out the cash and go buy it, read it, and come back when you're sober.
Nice, I like it! I had a similar idea: a spell, wich can be the the little rhyme that he thaught the hobbits, and when its used he appears and help in combat.
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So basically Tom saved them and buggered off back to his house to cook up a nice stew or something involving more "mushrooms" - considering Farmer Maggot had already forced feed them some a chapter earlier, there is a lot of implied drug abuse and tentacles in this story.
http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/book/book1_06.htm
http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/book/book1_07.htm
The version I have is the large red-bound leather hardcover with dust case collector's edition. Looks great on my bookshelf, thanks. It was printed by the same *original printer* as was first used in the US in the 1950s, and contains no corrections, no additions, and no re-spellings, as happened several times with original printings, in which publishers "corrected" Tolkien's use of "elven" etc. Mine is a second edition printed in 1974.
My version is the *correct* one. Since you think it is "three books", you should toss out your own copies, buy ISBN 0-395-19395-8, and read the actual *book* this time. Break out the cash and go buy it, read it, and come back when you're sober.
http://www.peterharrington.co.uk/rare-books/fine-bindings-library-sets/the-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-2/
I had a similar idea: a spell, wich can be the the little rhyme that he thaught the hobbits, and when its used he appears and help in combat.