• threelonmusketeers
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      181 month ago

      birdshit caked joke

      I can’t believe that the powers-that-be decided that that was a good decision.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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    1 month ago

    Yes, Rad. Literally every wizard other than Gandalf was nothing but spare parts.

  • @rtxn
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    141 month ago

    Are we all just going to pretend that Tom Bombadil doesn’t exist?

    • @Apeman42
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      401 month ago

      Whatever Tom is, it’s leagues beyond “wizard”.

    • Orvorn
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      151 month ago

      Tom is not a Maiar, one of the five who were present at the formation of the universe, he is… older.

      • threelonmusketeers
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        81 month ago

        a Maiar, one of the five

        That would be the Istari, no? Pretty sure there are more than five Maiar…

        • Orvorn
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          91 month ago

          I just meant the five Maiar who then went on to become Wizards but I phrased it poorly!

          • @Cort
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            31 month ago

            My head canon was that Tom was Eru Iluvatar just living his best life enjoying all the things he’d created.

            • @[email protected]
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              31 month ago

              There was a Reddit write up that argued Tom was Arda’s spirit itself and had quite a few convincing points. It is pretty clear that (keeping in mind that canon is a bit nebulous beyond the four books JRR actually published) he is probably not a Maia and also probably not Eru, beyond the level that everything is Eru anyways.