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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9394922" data-attributes="member: 18">My reaction to him the first time I read it was identical. I probably was mad with that dude until I was like, in my 30s and re-read LotR with way more context.Then I was like "This guy is really important to understanding what Tolkien is actually saying with these books". I still don't necessarily like him or even agree with the "kind-hearted Unabomber" sort of message, but at least I get it now and it's not just "UGH THIS WASTEMAN!".I think it's fine he's not in the movies, and don't worry, Rings of Power is going to absolutely RUIN Tom Bombadil for everyone. I have no doubt they will destroy him with some grotesque misrepresentation of his character. Especially as they've cast Rory Kinnear, a genuinely great character actor, but one who specializes in tetchy bureaucrats and repressed jerks and isn't great in other roles - and both of those things the absolutely and total opposite of Tom Bombadil. Also, Tom Bombadil really should be kind of hot, like under the beard and tomfoolery and stuff - he should be someone magnetic (like Winston Duke - not suggesting him specifically, but he was the first large inherently-sexy man I could think of). And that ain't Rory Kinnear.EDIT - I should say I don't loathe Rings of Power unlike some (though I do have... questions), and it made a lot of artistic decisions I respected in S1, but I really don't think S2 sounds like anything but a disaster.</blockquote>

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