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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9062165" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Well, he certainly didn't explain where in the canonical Middle Earth cosmology Tom sits, but Tom DOES explain himself, IMHO. He's unfettered free will. Good of his own nature, without attachment to any creed or desire to control anything but his own life and his little place in the world. This is why the Ring has no hold over him, he cannot be dominated or influenced because he's free, almost like a Bodhisattva. Elrond explains that, in the end, Sauron would crush him, physically, but not in spirit. And if you go all the way back to the Ainulindali, you see that the primary theme is will. Tom is the axis of the story, he literally embodies the concept of free will, the essence of self which the power of Morgoth, and thus Sauron his servant, opposes.</p><p></p><p>Sure, it can be excised from the PLOT, but Tolkien left it in for a reason, IMHO, even if he sometimes second guessed himself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 9062165, member: 82106"] Well, he certainly didn't explain where in the canonical Middle Earth cosmology Tom sits, but Tom DOES explain himself, IMHO. He's unfettered free will. Good of his own nature, without attachment to any creed or desire to control anything but his own life and his little place in the world. This is why the Ring has no hold over him, he cannot be dominated or influenced because he's free, almost like a Bodhisattva. Elrond explains that, in the end, Sauron would crush him, physically, but not in spirit. And if you go all the way back to the Ainulindali, you see that the primary theme is will. Tom is the axis of the story, he literally embodies the concept of free will, the essence of self which the power of Morgoth, and thus Sauron his servant, opposes. Sure, it can be excised from the PLOT, but Tolkien left it in for a reason, IMHO, even if he sometimes second guessed himself. [/QUOTE]
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