Patrick Lyon has a new Project Room for “Something Left Out”: The Enigma of Tom Bombadil. This book dedicates itself to one purpose: exploring the enigma of Tom Bombadil in as comprehensive a manner as possible. The book does not aim to solve or answer the ‘conscious enigma’ Tolkien created with the character, because Bombadil was not intended to be a resolvable question. However, this book serves to clarify the question of Tom Bombadil by looking first and foremost at the evidence of the text. The book will also serve as a guide to the critical responses and academic work done on the subject of Tom, and explore the history of the various interpretations of the meaning of his character. Finally, this book presents a new theory almost entirely overlooked in the past, that suggests the nature of Tom Bombadil lands even closer to home for Tolkien than previously thought.”
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