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from what I get of the tolkien quotations on wikipedia, tolkien considers himself essentially gandalf, and saruman the guy he would have been if he hadn\\\'t of fought with \\\"the tommies\\\"

sauron and tom bombadil are totally outlandish however, and represent very different ways of life, sauron seeks power and is terrifying despite not having a body, whereas tom is already powerful, to the point where sauron\\\'s ring is manipulated by him at will, he even makes *it* disappear, instead of the reverse - it\\\'s size changing properties manipulated at will on top of that, and his pwnage of the wights in the barrow downs further reinforces his mastery

I say mastery, and I mean it in the mystical sense even, he\\\'s equivalent to a non failure yoda, or master sifu from kung fu panda



Parallels have been drawn between the Green Man and various deities such as the British Celtic Lud, also known as Nodens. Many see him as being connected to the Mesopotamian Tammuz who is thought to symbolize the triumph of Life over Winter and Death,[13] Osiris, Odin, and even Jesus, as well as later folkloric and literary characters such as the Holly King.

Etymology

The name Nudd, cognate with the Irish Nuada and related to the Romano-British Nodens, probably derives from a Celtic stem *noudont- or *noudent-, which J. R. R. Tolkien suggested was related to a Germanic root meaning \\\"acquire, have the use of\\\", earlier \\\"to catch, entrap (as a hunter)\\\". Making the connection with Nuada and Lludd\\\'s hand, he detected \\\"an echo of the ancient fame of the magic hand of Nodens the Catcher\\\"


\\\"Eldest, that\\\'s what I am... Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn... He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.\\\"
—Tom Bombadil (The Lord of the Rings)


the green man who makes use of things, sounds like tom to me - in an environmentally friendly way of course, otherwise he wouldn\\\'t be \\\"green\\\" would he now?
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it\\\'s a \\\"foremost avatar - more down to earth dynamic\\\" for each

from what I get of the tolkien quotations on wikipedia, tolkien considers himself essentially gandalf, and saruman the guy he would have been if he hadn\\\'t of fought with \\\"the tommies\\\"

sauron and tom bombadil are totally outlandish however, and represent very different ways of life, sauron seeks power and is terrifying despite not having a body, whereas tom is already powerful, to the point where sauron\\\'s ring is manipulated by him at will, he even makes *it* disappear, instead of the reverse - it\\\'s size changing properties manipulated at will on top of that, and his pwnage of the wights in the barrow downs further reinforces his mastery

I say mastery, and I mean it in the mystical sense even, he\\\'s equivalent to a non failure yoda, or master sifu from kung fu panda



Parallels have been drawn between the Green Man and various deities such as the British Celtic Lud, also known as Nodens. Many see him as being connected to the Mesopotamian Tammuz who is thought to symbolize the triumph of Life over Winter and Death,[13] Osiris, Odin, and even Jesus, as well as later folkloric and literary characters such as the Holly King.

Etymology

The name Nudd, cognate with the Irish Nuada and related to the Romano-British Nodens, probably derives from a Celtic stem *noudont- or *noudent-, which J. R. R. Tolkien suggested was related to a Germanic root meaning \\\"acquire, have the use of\\\", earlier \\\"to catch, entrap (as a hunter)\\\". Making the connection with Nuada and Lludd\\\'s hand, he detected \\\"an echo of the ancient fame of the magic hand of Nodens the Catcher\\\"


\\\"Eldest, that\\\'s what I am... Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn... He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.\\\"
—Tom Bombadil (The Lord of the Rings)
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it\\\'s a \\\"foremost avatar - more down to earth dynamic\\\" for each

from what I get of the tolkien quotations on wikipedia, tolkien considers himself essentially gandalf, and saruman the guy he would have been if he hadn\\\'t of fought with \\\"the tommies\\\"

sauron and tom bombadil are totally outlandish however, and represent very different ways of life, sauron seeks power and is terrifying despite not having a body, whereas tom is already powerful, to the point where sauron\\\'s ring is manipulated by him at will, he even makes *it* disappear, instead of the reverse - it\\\'s size changing properties manipulated at will on top of that, and his pwnage of the wights in the barrow downs further reinforces his mastery

I say mastery, and I mean it in the mystical sense even, he\\\'s equivalent to a non failure yoda, or master sifu from kung fu panda



Parallels have been drawn between the Green Man and various deities such as the British Celtic Lud, also known as Nodens. Many see him as being connected to the Mesopotamian Tammuz who is thought to symbolize the triumph of Life over Winter and Death,[13] Osiris, Odin, and even Jesus, as well as later folkloric and literary characters such as the Holly King.

Etymology

The name Nudd, cognate with the Irish Nuada and related to the Romano-British Nodens, probably derives from a Celtic stem *noudont- or *noudent-, which J. R. R. Tolkien suggested was related to a Germanic root meaning \\\"acquire, have the use of\\\", earlier \\\"to catch, entrap (as a hunter)\\\". Making the connection with Nuada and Lludd\\\'s hand, he detected \\\"an echo of the ancient fame of the magic hand of Nodens the Catcher\\\"


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