Tolkien’s Tom Bombadil is no mentor. The character is named after a Dutch doll that once belonged to the writer’s children, and Tolkien wrote about his adventures perhaps as early as the 1920s.

He was hoping Tom had come across his two ... character in memory of his children's Dutch doll. In the familiar novels, the Hobbits spend time at Bombadil's house where they discuss giving him ...

The magical, mysterious Tom Bombadil appears in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Frodo and his Hobbit friends accidentally come across the rotund, gregarious figure near Tom ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is doing what no Lord of the Rings adaptation has done before: putting Tom Bombadil in the thing. To fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings ...