Rings Of Power Tom Bombadil Looks EXACTLY As I Would Except Him Too!

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  • čas přidán 29. 05. 2024
  • The Rings Of Power has quite mercifully already scuttled any hopes that Amazon had at stealing the Lord of The Rings setting away from J.R.R Tolkien but that does not mean we can stop there! Scorched earth is the best and only solution here! So let's turn the definition of magic and whimsy Tom Bombadil into a boring, dirty hobo from California! Accelerationism HO!
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  • @enoughothis
    @enoughothis Před měsícem +548

    Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.

    • @user-ve3jk4uc3o
      @user-ve3jk4uc3o Před měsícem +17

      I loved andy serkis's reading of this scene he brought so much character to it

    • @user-ve3jk4uc3o
      @user-ve3jk4uc3o Před měsícem +4

      Song not scene

    • @JFJD
      @JFJD Před měsícem

      New Tom Bombadil is quite the dour sage, his garb coloured to match the spirit of the age. He’s white and he’s male-so in case you didn’t cotton, it’s clear as the day that he’s due for something rotten.

    • @mattdelong6582
      @mattdelong6582 Před měsícem

      Get out you old wight. Vanish in the sunlight! The song then ends with the line ‘where gates stand for ever shut, till the world is mended’. Keep gate keeping folks. For the good of the world!

    • @VulpineFine
      @VulpineFine Před měsícem +14

      So arguably the "gayest" character in the books, who they should have been more than happy to depict for diversity sake... They ruin by making him NOT that way?

  • @michaeltalpas
    @michaeltalpas Před měsícem +225

    Oh Tom.. what did they do to you? Nothing. They did nothing to you. Because that's clearly not Tom Bombadil.

  • @dominicbrady1539
    @dominicbrady1539 Před měsícem +66

    Tom Bombadil is a drab fellow
    Pale grey is his jacket
    And his boots are sallow
    Misery is his chain
    He lives in constant pain

  • @nobodyspecial9097
    @nobodyspecial9097 Před měsícem +364

    “Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.”
    Back to this again.

    • @GreyKnight7777
      @GreyKnight7777 Před měsícem

      Leftists wrote 40k.

    • @woodwyrm
      @woodwyrm Před měsícem +4

      yep!

    • @onetwo5155
      @onetwo5155 Před měsícem +4

      Forever so.

    • @GreyKnight7777
      @GreyKnight7777 Před měsícem +1

      Weird. I correctly mentioned that leftists wrote Warhammer 40k but my comment was deleted. I wonder why I would be censored like that?

    • @Xazamas
      @Xazamas Před měsícem +4

      inb4 "nOt a Tolkien qUOte"
      While heavily paraphrased, it is based on a line from Return of the King, where Frodo speculates that "Shadow [that bred them..] can only mock."

  • @LaifuHaiku
    @LaifuHaiku Před měsícem +210

    Oh in the name of Tolkien...no. just no. Even peter jackson was wise enough to not touching Tom Bombaldil, who in the right mind of amazon team's awe inspiring incompentency thought they could do this character right!?

    • @matthewzumbo9868
      @matthewzumbo9868 Před měsícem +27

      Greed and hubris, largely at amazon, destroys all it touches

    • @dylanbell268
      @dylanbell268 Před měsícem +9

      @@matthewzumbo9868where is bezos’ ring?

    • @FELIPEFODAOBR12
      @FELIPEFODAOBR12 Před měsícem +3

      Tom has always been a bad childish character

    • @woodwyrm
      @woodwyrm Před měsícem

      They aint doing him right, they're doing Tom Bombadil as they, the Wangz of Power script-writers that is, conceptualize him, ultra-woke probably.
      Also he is IN THE FUCKING BAJA CALIFORNIA FOR SOME MISBEGOTTEN REASON! WTF!?!

    • @ActualDrunkAtheist
      @ActualDrunkAtheist Před měsícem

      ​@@FELIPEFODAOBR12Found the progressive who can't understand Bombadil.

  • @lastmanstanding5423
    @lastmanstanding5423 Před měsícem +84

    Tom Bombadil = leaves his woods once in an eon just because he lost his hat... he then scurries back as fast as his legs can carry him.
    Amazon = he lives in the desert now in a cabin that looks like it's from the Western gunslinger movie. LOL LOL

  • @bikerviking1947
    @bikerviking1947 Před měsícem +243

    Tom Bombadil... A godlike (potentially a literal god) character of emmense power , wisdom and knowledge, none of which is ever really seen, but still never doubted...
    How should we portray him? I know... He needs to be a piss-stained california hobo, cosplaying as a basic-bitch DnD wizard, on a budget of $2,- and a broken crack pipe.
    Also; Thank you for your service. You may be a silly little Fjeldabe, but watching this garbage so we don't have to, makes you good people.

    • @Hippo_Hegemony
      @Hippo_Hegemony Před měsícem +3

      Is Fjeldabe a slur? If so please tell me what it means.

    • @bikerviking1947
      @bikerviking1947 Před měsícem +27

      @@Hippo_Hegemony It is indeed.
      Fjeldabe (roughly translates to "mountain monkey"), is what We Danes call Norwegians. And they have similar terms for us.
      Scandinavians are Brothers. We fight and call eachother names. We have been at war (literally and figuratively) since the dawn of time. But in the end, all the hate and violence comes from a place of love.
      We commonly say that Danes and Norwegians only get along when we are both bullying Sweden. And even then, we only pick on Sweden because he is the youngest brother and it is our duty to beat some sense into him and make him a man (we sort of failed a bit at that last part :/ ).

    • @Hippo_Hegemony
      @Hippo_Hegemony Před měsícem +11

      @@bikerviking1947 I just wanted to learn a new slur

    • @bikerviking1947
      @bikerviking1947 Před měsícem +19

      @@Hippo_Hegemony
      A worthy pursuit, if ever there was one

    • @williamjeffery9653
      @williamjeffery9653 Před měsícem +8

      @@bikerviking1947 If Sweden is the youngest brother, what does that make Iceland? The little sister?

  • @adde27
    @adde27 Před měsícem +60

    “Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before the Big People, and saw the Little People arriving. He was here before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow-wights. When the Elves passed westward, Tom was here already, before the seas were bent. He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.” - One of the best parts of the Fellowship, imo: a description that, despite being clear, leaves so much to mystery. But trust Amazon to not even make him *look* right, they'll for sure make him Goldberry's hobo husband.

    • @TherealTenmanI
      @TherealTenmanI Před měsícem +1

      Having not read it, that's fricken awesome. The most I know was the whole "bombadillo" silliness.
      It inspires an odd fear of power.

  • @martinkafka9510
    @martinkafka9510 Před měsícem +73

    That Bombadil saw some shit. Probably first season of Rings of Power.

  • @daywither927
    @daywither927 Před měsícem +116

    They even inverted where he lives... Now that is dedication to destroy every single detail they can.

  • @nightwishfan1991
    @nightwishfan1991 Před měsícem +252

    Oh joy, I can't wait for sad and depressed Tom Bombadil in washed out grey colors......remember when we were allowed to have fun? God I miss those days.

    • @theliato3809
      @theliato3809 Před měsícem +22

      Tom bombadi is gonna be the most symbolic representation of the modernation adaptations great failings.

    • @Hippo_Hegemony
      @Hippo_Hegemony Před měsícem +1

      ​@@theliato3809 I don't think so, I don't believe he is prominent enough for it to hit that many people.

  • @MarquisLaFayette
    @MarquisLaFayette Před měsícem +103

    Peter Jackson left out Tom Bombadil because his character wouldn't have fit with the rather dark tone of this part of his Fellowship movie. And Peter Jackson didn't want to change his character to make him fit. Amazon evidently has no such qualms and now we get whatever this is? Bright blue jacket? Yellow boots? Merry fellow? Nah.

  • @TheLeadElite
    @TheLeadElite Před měsícem +85

    Tom Bombadil and Goldberry are supposed to the beacons of positivity and goodness in Middle Earth. RoP will do what even Melkor could not and corrupt them.

  • @wesleythomas7125
    @wesleythomas7125 Před měsícem +30

    No, it's not Tom Bombadill, it's Tim Benzedrine from "Bored of the Rings."

  • @maxrobe
    @maxrobe Před měsícem +29

    "Toke-a-lid! Smoke-a-lid! Pop the mescalino!
    Stash the hash! Gonna crash! Make mine methedrino!
    Hop a hill! Pop a pill! For Old Tim Benzedrino!"

  • @stechuskaktus3577
    @stechuskaktus3577 Před měsícem +14

    "The rings of power are so garstly it makes Tom Bombadil cry!" Gandalf

  • @Mad-Cat_Dan
    @Mad-Cat_Dan Před měsícem +17

    You think this is bad?
    Just wait for Girl-Boss Goldberry.

  • @Mechabang
    @Mechabang Před měsícem +63

    Anyone surprised? I'm not.

    • @woodwyrm
      @woodwyrm Před měsícem +2

      I am Arch's lack of surprise lmao

  • @IRMentat
    @IRMentat Před měsícem +23

    from THE whimsical fellow empowered by the very world itself with no need for fear of his own (and who treats even the malevolent like naughty toddlers) married to a blonde timeless beauty, living carefree amidst forest, river and flower in the mildest of summer climes like a fay in the good-times of stories.
    OF COURSE he's end up dishevelled & alone in a sun and sand blasted hovel, alone, face and frazzle scored by the passing of hard worn times and slumped in a shadow wreathed pile of rocks.
    i'd bet no song, rhyme, ditty nor dance will pass from his puckered ass.

  • @nullbubble791
    @nullbubble791 Před měsícem +16

    Tom Bombadil can't save us from the horrors of the Rings of Power...just offering us respite before it releases

  • @side7oldtype298
    @side7oldtype298 Před měsícem +16

    Amazon: Watch how we trample one of the most happiest and merry fellow in Tolkien's literature.

  • @ChimpFromSpace
    @ChimpFromSpace Před měsícem +24

    0:30 Looks like they took pictures of some random hippy in California.

  • @MrLolguy93
    @MrLolguy93 Před měsícem +33

    If that isn't scraping the bottom of the barrel, nothing is

  • @johanneshoogenboom
    @johanneshoogenboom Před měsícem +25

    He looks like John the Baptist. Living in the wilderness with his camel skin eating locusts and raw honey.

    • @Lord_Numpty
      @Lord_Numpty Před měsícem +4

      Nah, John the Baptist was a wise and holy man who would’ve worn the most humble of robes, but he wouldn’t have been filthy and miserable.
      Point being a literal hermit would’ve looked more respectable and joyful than this miserable creature.

  • @dragoniswolflord3119
    @dragoniswolflord3119 Před měsícem +23

    This is the saddest most drastic homeless guy. He looks just so utterly opposite of what he is supposed to be. He is a singing dancing powerful being, full of joy and cheer. Living in the woods with his wonderfull wife Goldberry.

  • @Pers0n97
    @Pers0n97 Před měsícem +8

    This show is non cannon and everyone will have totally forgot it ever existed before the end of the decade.

    • @malaficus
      @malaficus Před měsícem +3

      I hope so.
      Humans are anoyingly easy too corrupt.

  • @RandgrisAlmark
    @RandgrisAlmark Před měsícem +16

    Look how they've massacred our boy.
    Funnily enough I've yet to see any advertising for this season. So, Amazon must know.

    • @TheMaleRei
      @TheMaleRei Před měsícem

      I wonder if they'll put it on their packing materials this time like first season.

  • @kacpadestro8086
    @kacpadestro8086 Před měsícem +10

    Tom California Hobo Bombadil

  • @Marinealver
    @Marinealver Před měsícem +12

    Surprised they didn't put bird droppings in his hair like what they did with Radagast The Brown.

  • @sermormont
    @sermormont Před měsícem +17

    Can guarantee Goldberry will not be "golden", or more than likely non-existent.

    • @myvideosetc.8271
      @myvideosetc.8271 Před měsícem +7

      She will be stunning and brave and Will need "no mawn"

    • @MisterDantastic
      @MisterDantastic Před měsícem +1

      Goldberry will be from the wnba.

    • @matiashamalainen7965
      @matiashamalainen7965 Před měsícem +1

      The only thing golden thing will probably be their shower. Now thats modern and inclusive!

  • @CynicalOldDwarf
    @CynicalOldDwarf Před měsícem +3

    Tom looks like he's about to chase the merchants out of his father's temple.

  • @davey1602
    @davey1602 Před měsícem +7

    When I first read Lord of the Rings at the imaginative age of 14, I pictured Tom as an energetic, slightly taller Leprechaun, dancing around his wife as they set the dinner table and completely unbothered by malevolent trees or raindrops. Let this incarnation burn!

  • @akumaking1
    @akumaking1 Před měsícem +81

    Too bad Amazon destroyed the legacy of JRR Tolkien.

    • @Mechabang
      @Mechabang Před měsícem +6

      Bezos is the current dark lord

    • @aa-yt7wo
      @aa-yt7wo Před měsícem +13

      It's the same level of audacity as saying you're writing new Shakespeare plays and they're authenticly Shakespeare cannon. People would think you're insane.

    • @marcogenovesi8570
      @marcogenovesi8570 Před měsícem +31

      Nah they didn't destroy it, they just made a fool out of themselves. Tolkien fandom is still there and books still sell well (actually better) after the show

    • @reactiondavant-garde3391
      @reactiondavant-garde3391 Před měsícem +15

      You can't really do it, the fact thet he wrote the books oriiginally cannot undone by bad movey adaptation. Though I fear the day when they announce a "sequel" for the books.

    • @waderich9904
      @waderich9904 Před měsícem +12

      Rings of power isn’t related to The Lord of the Rings or Tolkien in any way really. It’s just some dumb show from Amazon copying a few people’s names.

  • @advanzeelive
    @advanzeelive Před měsícem +6

    To be honest, Count Dankula would have fit really well in the role as Tom Bombadil imo.

  • @YourOldUncleNoongah
    @YourOldUncleNoongah Před měsícem +7

    LOOK HOW THEY MASSACRED MY BOY!

  • @steppahouse
    @steppahouse Před měsícem +5

    Brian Blessed is the only human, past, present or future, that could even think about adapting Tom B. And even then, only barely.

  • @blankadams3120
    @blankadams3120 Před měsícem +10

    Anyone else remember when shows with a message were still bright and colorful? Look at Captain Planet, for instance! A show about eco conservatism, and even the villains were brightly colored!

    • @guyincognito1406
      @guyincognito1406 Před měsícem +3

      Ahh true mustache twirling villains.
      Loved their motivations, spent billions on this oil to dump it wahah.

  • @Fuzzycat16
    @Fuzzycat16 Před měsícem +13

    He wont be Whimsy at all will he? and i guess they will just say " He's Eru "

  • @octapusxft
    @octapusxft Před měsícem +7

    If Tolkien had written Lord of the rings on the current day, the evil forces would symbolize not industrialization/Modernism but Postmodernism.

  • @harbl99
    @harbl99 Před měsícem +7

    He looks like _The Mighty Boosh_ decided to do a LOTR parody.
    "We have to go and visit the magic forest man Vince."
    "Not the bloody singing again!"

  • @dododojo905
    @dododojo905 Před měsícem +14

    For those of you who don't know about the old animated Lord of the Rings movies, the song "Where there's a whip, there's a way" is well worth watching.

    • @MrLolguy93
      @MrLolguy93 Před měsícem +2

      The first movie was made by Ralph Bakshi and it covers the first two books. The second movie is made Rankin Bass.

    • @runnerofnigh
      @runnerofnigh Před měsícem

      "Funny Little Things" From The Hobbit is a fond childhood memory of mine. Also Paladin Richard Boone voiced Smaug.

    • @GibsMeMunny
      @GibsMeMunny Před měsícem +3

      The 9-to-5er's anthem.

    • @runnerofnigh
      @runnerofnigh Před měsícem

      Why is youtube deleting my comments? All I said was the song Funny Little Things from The Hobbit was great when I was a kid and Paladin Richard Boone was the voice of Smaug.

    • @internetzenmaster8952
      @internetzenmaster8952 Před měsícem +1

      A timeless classic, that song.

  • @blueeyed5074
    @blueeyed5074 Před měsícem +2

    So just like how they made elves - basically a human with pointy ears.

  • @Perktube1
    @Perktube1 Před měsícem +4

    Lol, Tom Bombadil in the desert, sad and grouchy; Amazon will probably have him running an old curio shop selling silver and turquoise belt buckles and rattlesnake heads off the side of a dirt road next to the freeway in Arizona. 😂

  • @adriankeirle1452
    @adriankeirle1452 Před měsícem +3

    I always took Tom to be similar to Ungoliant. Something cut from the same cloth, from outside Arda. Where she is an all consuming cancer to creation that hates Illuvitars creation (like amazon), he loves the creation and enjoys it.

  • @koboldfan3238
    @koboldfan3238 Před měsícem +2

    I would have guessed Amazon would have made Tom more loud than a Pride Parade. But seems the opposite happened and Tom needs someone to teach him to smile.

  • @thorveim1174
    @thorveim1174 Před měsícem +5

    of course they cant get the always cheery, colorful, whimsical and yet at the same time INCREDIBLY POWERFUL character right!
    His point in the story is to be the single strongest being on the side of good, yet also too quirky in his mindset to want to get involved in the war itself (Gandalf argues that if he was given the ring, he wouldnt be corrupted by it, but he would likely just forget about it and lose it uncaringly, making him unfit as a ringbearer). he is an anomaly to even the setting's equivalent of divine beings, but at the same time is perfectly content just being happy in his own little corner of the world, protecting it and nothing else; thet kind of being who would still enjoy his simple life with a smile even as the rest of the world burned, as if unaware of what was going on outside his woods.
    So of course by modern laws, he must be turned into a miserable, depressed hobo, instead of a being thats perpetually happy because its in his very nature to BE happy

  • @Goddamnitiwantaname
    @Goddamnitiwantaname Před měsícem +5

    Wanna bet that some girl boss is teaching him joy and making him the Tom we know from the books?

    • @tremor230
      @tremor230 Před měsícem +2

      Even If by the lore Tom is the first being to pop into being on middle earth... even before elves If I remember correctly...

  • @Gorbz
    @Gorbz Před měsícem +5

    If I had to guess, they were setting this up as pre-Goldberry Bombail, and have him be all mopey. And probably have Nori be the one to set him off to find her, or somesuch nonsense.

    • @maxpower3990
      @maxpower3990 Před měsícem

      Except they have been married since before the Sun and the Moon were made.

    • @Gorbz
      @Gorbz Před měsícem

      @@maxpower3990 That won't stop the writers

  • @kippies66
    @kippies66 Před měsícem +2

    "In our story he has gone out to the lands of Rhûn."
    Doesn't he like... not leave his forest?

  • @balaklava6420
    @balaklava6420 Před měsícem +3

    They just can't help themselves.

  • @roneon4
    @roneon4 Před měsícem +3

    Amazon ROP is like the diarrhea that never stop. It only requies a moment to continue.

  • @prokopiusvonvogelberg1396
    @prokopiusvonvogelberg1396 Před měsícem +1

    Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo!
    By water, wood and hill, by the reed and willow,
    By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us!
    Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

  • @Yandarval
    @Yandarval Před měsícem +2

    Of course Tom looks irked and sad. Somebody has stolen his clothes and left sacking in there place. He stepped outside to see a Sun cracked wasteland. Not his normal lush surroundings

  • @GibsMeMunny
    @GibsMeMunny Před měsícem +6

    Out of every character they could shit all over, they choose Tom Bombadil? Jesus Christ. I miss the days when we weren't afraid of Hollywood adapting the IPs we love.
    Also, this trend where books now come with advertisements for TV shows/series is absolute cancer. I was looking to buy the full Witcher set a couple of years ago, and the only copies I was finding had "Netflix" stamped (printed) on the cover and back. Not a leaflet, not a card. The goddamn cover. As if I was buying a Netflix product.

  • @oO0Xenos0Oo
    @oO0Xenos0Oo Před měsícem +3

    Just make him appear goofy and fun at first glance but at some point show him doing a 10billion yard stare, in order to point out how insanely old he really is.

  • @oteris2924
    @oteris2924 Před měsícem +2

    Just from the images I've seen. They've already messed him up, he is not very merry fellow. His jacket may be blue but his boots are barely yellow.

  • @terrymoose7273
    @terrymoose7273 Před měsícem +1

    Tom Hobodil looks exactly as expected.

  • @013wolfwarrior
    @013wolfwarrior Před měsícem +3

    Who wants to bet, they'll make his wife dark as the night

  • @oldmanwinter3597
    @oldmanwinter3597 Před měsícem +2

    Can't wait for Goldberry...

  • @ChaosRaptorEye
    @ChaosRaptorEye Před měsícem +1

    From the last rumor ... He and Goldberry are Morgoth and Ungoliat spending their sentence in Middle Earth ...

  • @MrLolguy93
    @MrLolguy93 Před měsícem +11

    > Ralph Bakshi mentioned
    Based Arch as always
    Though I prefer Fire and Ice

  • @jim.rnilsen9
    @jim.rnilsen9 Před měsícem +2

    I in my mind Tom is the song of creation made manifest, what was left if the song of the Ainur after it made the world.

  • @sullivandmitry1416
    @sullivandmitry1416 Před měsícem +3

    Why is he near a desert? He had lush gardens and spent all of his time in the forest. There are no deserts in the middle of middle earth. Yeah, they exist but not where Tom lived.

  • @worldofwarcraftman2
    @worldofwarcraftman2 Před měsícem +1

    the funny thing with Tom Bombadil getting the ring is that he would keep the ring from Sauron if he thought playing a game of keep away was funny. So he'd keep the ring in sight of Sauron and just keep it away from him for shits and giggles. Just for Sauron to finally get within an inch of getting it and Tom snatching it right out from under his fingers saying. "Hey this is real fun let's play again!"

  • @Military-gradenutella3068
    @Military-gradenutella3068 Před měsícem +3

    Looks like Hagrid bought a hat.

  • @xerokitsune
    @xerokitsune Před měsícem +2

    Looks like even Tom Bombadil is worn down by DEI.

  • @the_astrokhan
    @the_astrokhan Před měsícem +4

    That's not Tom Bombadil, thats a Hagrid cosplay.

  • @BlindandMad
    @BlindandMad Před měsícem +3

    I think I have guessed what they have planned for poor old Tom Bombadil.
    They are probably setting the story so that this is before he met Goldberry.Therefor Tom Bombadil, the embodiment of joyous song, is just a depressed powerless man who needs a wife to fix him.
    I really hope I am wrong. While stories where someone down on their luck turns around after meeting a love interest can be good. A depressed Tom Bombadil should not exist.
    He’s the kind of character who would probably sing joyful songs at the end of the world, simply because that is what he does, that is who he is.

  • @roiking2740
    @roiking2740 Před měsícem +1

    Isn't he a cheerful and happy fellow?

  • @jeremykaratka9363
    @jeremykaratka9363 Před měsícem +2

    Tom Bombadil is batman now, all characters must be batman at some point

  • @picivyvortac2641
    @picivyvortac2641 Před měsícem +8

    Honestly, I'm suprised 'they're' not a black lesbians.

    • @MadsterV
      @MadsterV Před měsícem

      Let's see Goldberry

    • @picivyvortac2641
      @picivyvortac2641 Před měsícem

      @@MadsterV my guess, a poc and all his power actually comes from her. Even if he does have power, he's a sad loser (gotta be since he's white)

  • @ShoshanTheElegant
    @ShoshanTheElegant Před měsícem +1

    Why is he in the desert? I always pictured his FOREST as almost a swampland. Overgrown, wild, and dark.

  • @conradflanagan5003
    @conradflanagan5003 Před měsícem +2

    I actually didn't expect them to bring Tom to the screen. Maybe the supposed leak that suggests RoP will confirm Tom Bombadil and Goldberry to be Morgoth and Ungoliant serving their "sentence" from Eru is true after all. I mean, what's a little more butchery of Tolkien's legendarium to these show-runners?

  • @christophebedouret9813
    @christophebedouret9813 Před měsícem +1

    The good thing is this role can save a poor califonian hobo.

  • @waderich9904
    @waderich9904 Před měsícem +1

    The greatest evils target and attack the greatest goods

  • @ChimeraArchive
    @ChimeraArchive Před měsícem +2

    I'm not even the biggest Lord of the Rings fan and I know that's not what Tom Bombadil is supposed to look like.
    I know Amazon doesn't have full rights to Tolkiens works, but everything else they've done is just sad.

  • @wishuponamonkeyspaw2458
    @wishuponamonkeyspaw2458 Před měsícem +3

    Ah yes, the being that cares little if at all for things beyond his domain and refuses to leave it, simply moves to a summer house 5000 miles east randomly to be a part of a dreadful TV show.

  • @Perktube1
    @Perktube1 Před měsícem +1

    The problem is that, unlike Jackson's LOTR,which has basically the original characters to compare with Amazon's cheaper copies, Tom Bombadil here will be possibly the first video iteration of this character, and might thus stick out, in the minds of the layity whenever the character is brought up in conversation.

  • @sharzinlalebazri5673
    @sharzinlalebazri5673 Před měsícem +1

    his smile and optimism: gone.

    • @punishthemeatpocket
      @punishthemeatpocket Před měsícem +1

      Hollywood in a nutshell. A joyless exercise in religious woke dogma.

  • @bug5654
    @bug5654 Před měsícem +15

    Tom Bombadil looking like the Witch King of Angmar? _Hmm._

    • @TheMaleRei
      @TheMaleRei Před měsícem +6

      This is a false Tom Bombadil.
      It'll be revealed that the *real* is Tomina Bombay!!!
      A brave Easterling Woman of Color with half shaved head

  • @TheEldritchGod
    @TheEldritchGod Před měsícem

    It is amazing to see Arch's mind snap in real-time.

  • @VisiblyPinkUnicorn
    @VisiblyPinkUnicorn Před měsícem +4

    Tom Bombadull looks great.

  • @cope847
    @cope847 Před měsícem +3

    Well the good news is that Amazon only has the rights to the appendices. They can't do any proper Lord of the Rings. Anything from the books has to be licensed from WB.

  • @jasonsantos3037
    @jasonsantos3037 Před měsícem +1

    Can wait to see the ratings for season 2 of Rings of Power.

  • @pubcle
    @pubcle Před měsícem

    It brings great sorrow to the heart to see the deepest representations of Tolkien's love of whimsy & mystic into the adult to be rendered as a muddled gray blob of a homeless man in the hills of LA.
    I qm with you on the accelerationism here but damn if it doesn't still hurt to see.

  • @Greshgore
    @Greshgore Před měsícem +1

    Even though things that Tolkien said in his letters make this not the case, my head canon has always made Tom Bombadil some sort of physical representation of the Song that created Arda. He sings a lot, he has said or it's been said of him that he has existed basically since Arda existed, his land would be immune or at least resistant to evil until there was no hope left, he has an obvious affinity for wildlife and plants, the ring seemingly has no effect on him, he is in general a bright and happy being.

  • @rasenshuriken7325
    @rasenshuriken7325 Před měsícem +1

    They made Tom look like he's on his 4th divorce and he ran out of booze.

  • @nyanko2077
    @nyanko2077 Před měsícem +1

    After hobo Gandalf, let's have hobo Bombadil. I bet Goldberry will be a cosette dressed in rags and living under a table.

    • @matiashamalainen7965
      @matiashamalainen7965 Před měsícem

      The highlight of the show will be the two hobos making some moonshine together deep in the forest of Fangorn. 🤣

  • @ahmataevo
    @ahmataevo Před měsícem

    "Yer a nuisance Gandalf!" - Hagrid

  • @thesleeplesspainter3634
    @thesleeplesspainter3634 Před měsícem +1

    Never forget that when you watch modern writers twist and subvert beloved stories and characters, you are actually watching a child gleefully break his dad’s bowling trophy. You are watching them sit their dad down and scream at him for two hours. It is a resentment born from inferiority. Lesser sons of greater sires, as Tolkien would say.

  • @sedevri864
    @sedevri864 Před měsícem

    I always assumed Tom was whimsy and goodness made manifest. Like an Avatar of Positivity.

  • @S71xx
    @S71xx Před měsícem +2

    He looks like a hobo wizard.

  • @elidasilva5558
    @elidasilva5558 Před měsícem

    What everyone wanted, Grim Dark Tom Bambidil

  • @UmaROMC
    @UmaROMC Před měsícem +1

    Donuts to dollars his wife left him.

  • @Sputnik5790
    @Sputnik5790 Před měsícem

    They will make him throw fireballs or some shit instead of singing mighty creatures into submission.

  • @samdurfee6093
    @samdurfee6093 Před měsícem +1

    4:51
    My head cannon was always that Tom Bombadil was two things.
    1: He was the Physical representation of Aru Aluvitar in middle earth, the ring has no sway over him, because what kind of power can you tempt a being who already has the power of creation.
    2: The Meta self insert of Tolkien himself, as personally wise Tom is very similar to the Hobbits and Tolkien regarded himself a Hobbit in all but name.
    But you can bet your ass that Amazon is gonna fuck this up.

  • @auraguard0212
    @auraguard0212 Před měsícem

    Tom is the Earth himself! No wonder they'd make him look dark! >.>

  • @orthoff123
    @orthoff123 Před měsícem

    THANK YOU ARCH!!!!!!

  • @poneill65
    @poneill65 Před měsícem

    TBH, if these destroyers and usurpers (Payne & McKay) hadn't announced their foul plan, I'd have assumed that grimy sullen bugger was a Blue wizzard.
    (pointy hat, staff, grimy blue cloak, in the East)

  • @fractaljack210
    @fractaljack210 Před měsícem +3

    "Aqualung my friend, don't you start a way too easy, you see it's only me." What? Your name's Tom.? Sorry mate, I was looking for another poor, homeless bastard.