Old Tom bombadil is a...?!?! - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Morsul the Dark · 08-16-2005, 11:06 AM

Reading an old thread there is a thread

http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=11453

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The Umli are completely an invention by Iron Crown Enterprises.

But perhaps with a little stretch of the imagination you could interpret this passage in The Return of the King as to refer to some kind of ‘half-dwarves’:

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The new host that we had tidings of has come first, from over the River by way of Andros, it is said. They are strong: battalions of Orcs of the Eye, and countless companies of Men of a new sort that we have not met before. Not tall, but broad and grim, bearded like dwarves, wielding great axes. Out of some savage land in the wide East they come, we deem.

Maerbenn said this it is quoted from ROTK

offhand it does sound like Bombadil, they do say these fighters were grim but it was war afterall so is it possible that when not in battle IE bombadil they are overly happy could bombadil be one of these guys who migrated to the west?

Sorry for double posting