121 - Comfortably Tom

Published: April 14, 2019, 3 p.m.

In the final pages of \u201cFog on the Barrow-downs\u201d, the hobbits \u2014 now armed with nice, shiny daggers \u2014 reluctantly take their leave of Tom Bombadil. Before we say goodbye to Tom, we give the greatest enigma in Middle-earth the full Prancing Pony Podcast treatment! We answer listener questions, respond to popular theories, and assemble a council\u2019s worth of comments from our favorite scholars (including an unpublished letter by Tolkien himself) before making our final conclusions about what Tom Bombadil really is. A day may come when your hosts have an epic disagreement\u2026 is it this day?