Bombadil Goes Boating
Bombadil Goes Boating is a poem written by J.R.R. Tolkien and was published in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.[1] It was closely related to The Lord of the Rings as Tom shows that he knows much of the recent events in the Shire thanks to Farmer Maggot.
Tom even travels down the Withywindle to visit the Farmer and his family, singing and dancing late into the night. There was also a mock-scholarly introduction, in which Tolkien notes that not only did the Bucklanders compose poetry about Tom Bombadil, "they probably gave him this name (it is Bucklandish in form) to add to his many older ones." But, he writes, "they had as little understanding of his powers as the Shire-folk had of Gandalf's: both were regarded as benevolent persons, mysterious maybe and unpredictable but nonetheless comic." As part of the Shire-lore recorded in the Red Book, the poem was composed after the War of the Ring.[2]
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