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I love that Goldberry does know more than Tom, and that the whole piece feels like one of his poems, with excursions around the central image.

I love the idea of enigmatic Tom being baffled by something — and found it very funny, if understandable, that he was not a little put out that they didn't stay to chat with him... only to have Goldberry laugh and offer to introduce him!

I'd never read the poem before, so thank you too for this introduction; it has such marvellous imagery that really resonates with magic and beauty, and you've brought it all together into Middle-earth so marvellously.

Lovely!

(Tee-hee, I actually went and looked lintips up because I thought they might be a local common name of some European species of something!)

 

I'm glad I was able to introduce you to the poem! I only just found out about it myself. (I have an earlier edition of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil that doesn't have the appendix.)

I think Tolkien would be delighted and amused that you thought the lintips were a European species!

Thank you!

Tom being baffled is already in the poem itself, but I expanded on it a bit!

Interestingly, I noticed that the bit about Tom's list of names according to Elrond has some resemblance to Gandalf's list of names according to himself. Which might not mean that much, really, because Tolkien likes names, of course, but I was reminded how Gandalf compares himself to Tom toward the end...