What if Tom Bombadil took the Ring to Orodruin to destroy? You think he will make it there?

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O Elbereth! Gilthionel!

I don't think Tom Bombadil would try to destroy the Ring, he didn't care about the ring...

But if he really wanted, I think he would make it, but I don't know how...

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Hmmm.... Do we know what happened to Tom after the Third Age?

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O Elbereth! Gilthionel!

Tolkien didn't give enough information about Tom Bombadil in his books (there is a book named "Tom Bombadil's adventures" or something) like-
What is Tom Bombadil, his age (im not sure), and many more questions like yours that we dont know the correct answer about them, we can only guess!! So i think Tom would just refuse to do that. or would he?

-My question about Bombadil- In the book, Tom weared the ring but he didn't disappear at all. When Frodo asked Gandalf about that he just gave him a silly answer. can you answer that for me?

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is what you're talking about, I think, Old man Willow.

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I think Tom didn't disappear because he was immortal, I've read that only mortal persons disappear when they wear the ring

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I personally think the Ring didn't make him disappear because Tom is Master and the Ring has no effect whatsoever on him.

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O Elbereth! Gilthionel!

The Ring has no power over Tom in his domain as he is master of it. Anything that enters is subject to the will of Tom.

You mean kind of similar to Elrond being master of the River Bruinen?

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"If you do not find a way, no one will."

I suppose so.

Now that I think of it, what you said about Tom really strikes me. "...Anything that enters is subject to the will of Tom." Do all creatures have some degree of power like that....greater or smaller depending on the place the creature is within the structure of a world or universe?
I suppose this came to me in realizing that Tom wasn't the only one...Elrond had the same power.

I think that this is true. Even the least and most insignificant of creatures has a will—a choice—that nothing can pass without reaconing with…or being subject to . I have thought of Tom in terms of power and wonder and might, not realizing that my powers actually resemble his, only on a different level.

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"If you do not find a way, no one will."

Tom wouldent go destroy the ring as he says he never leaves the Old Forest.

uhmmm even if he did leave the old forest i highly doubt he would actually make it to mt. doom, he's too... i dunno, music-happy and he's not serious enough i think...

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Also he is not invulnerable. When he is outside his own land his chance is as good as anybodies of getting to Mt Doom.

Just because Tom Bombadil's loves music and sings does not mean he is not serious, and it doesn't mean that he is not powerful. Who saved Frodo, Merry, Pippin, and Sam from the Barrow-wights then? Not just some guy nancing around in yellow boots. Someone with power. And his music is part of his power I think. How he can command trees (Old Man Willow) and animals (Fatty Lumpkin and the other horses) with it, and how he knew to come and help Frodo because of a song.

I agree with the fact that he would never go on the quest. Tom Bombadil is above mortal man, and I think he likes to stay out of their affairs as much as possible.

However, I think if he chose to go, if he really wanted to, if it all rested on him, he could do it.

When I read the book I found Tom Bombadil kind of weird in the beginning but then I realized that he´s really powerful and wise and I like him very much. Who said that you have to fight or at least seem to be strong to be powerful anyway?
I doub´t it very much that Tom would have taken the part of Frodo simply because he would never leave the old forest cause the ring and its fate as well as the conflicts of the mortals are not up to him.

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