The Long Talk

[Ancalagon'sFire]

‘But if you would know, I am turning aside soon. I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time. He is a moss-gatherer, and I have been a stone doomed to rolling. But my rolling days are ending, and now we shall have much to say to one another.’

The Lord of the Rings

What do you think Gandalf would have wished to discuss with Tom Bombadil prior to his departure from Middle-Earth? Bear in mind the enigma that Tom is (and Goldberry) and the fact they remained bound to Middle-Earth while Gandalf's time was spent within it. I have a theory on Tom and Goldberry representing the biological clock of Middle-Earth, but that can be developed later. For now, apart from the goings on in recent times did their conversation take a rather more dim view of the march of industrialisation, the impending ecological disasters created by the coming age of men or the did they simply while away the hours debating the natural order of things?