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Tolkien’s Koala: From Bingo to Frodo

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Tom Bombadil: Dead Hobbits & Barrow-wights | TB Playing Cards | Tom Bombadil (TB) - Evolution | TB - Excellent spirit | TB - Guests, Hosts ... | Tolkien's Holy Spirit | Religious Bibliography | Tolkien's Koala | TB - Powers (Video) | TB - The Mystery Solved (Video) | TB - Who is? Part 1 (Video) | TB - Who is? Part 2 (Video) | TB - Who is he really? (Video) Abstract : The lead hobbit character in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy of 1954-5 was originally named Bingo Baggins after Bingo Bear, a toy Australian koala owned by the author’s daughter Priscilla and often referred to at the time as a koala bear. Tolkien, during the course of writing The Lord of the Rings , went on to change the lead from Bingo Baggins, son of Bilbo Baggins, to Frodo Baggins, his nephew. Bears were to feature throughout Tolkien’s juvenile and adult fiction, though the marsupial koala w
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An Excellent Spirit: Tom Bombadil, Goldberry and the Showing of Enigmas

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Tom Bombadil: Dead Hobbits & Barrow-wights | TB Playing Cards | Tom Bombadil (TB) - Evolution | TB - Excellent spirit | TB - Guests, Hosts ... | Tolkien's Holy Spirit | Religious Bibliography | Tolkien's Koala | TB - Powers (Video) | TB - The Mystery Solved (Video) | TB - Who is? Part 1 (Video) | TB - Who is? Part 2 (Video) | TB - Who is he really? (Video) Daniel Côté Davis and Michael Organ The role of the Holy Spirit in J.R.R. Tolkien's prophetic writing style is brought to the fore in The Lord of the Rings through the characterisation of Tom Bombadil and his ‘River-daughter’ wife Goldberry as an apotheosis of the Divine Energy that inspired his vision. The dreams, visions, spiritual refreshment and charismatic gifts granted through their two enigmatic personas can be traced to biographic and narratival origin. The case can be mounted that, as Tolkien himself note
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The evolution of Tom Bombadil: From the Oxford and Berkshire countryside to Middle-earth and beyond

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Tom Bombadil: Dead Hobbits & Barrow-wights | TB Playing Cards | Tom Bombadil (TB) - Evolution | TB - Excellent spirit | TB - Guests, Hosts ... | Tolkien's Holy Spirit | Religious Bibliography | Tolkien's Koala | TB - Powers (Video) | TB - The Mystery Solved (Video) | TB - Who is? Part 1 (Video) | TB - Who is? Part 2 (Video) | TB - Who is he really? (Video) What J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) Middle-earth character has the ability to manipulate and control the mind like Obi Wan Kinobi in Star Wars ; meditate for hours on end like a Tibetan monk; is unaffected by the One ring of power such that he is able to make it disappear; twice saves the party of hobbits led by Frodo Baggins at the beginning of their journey to Mordor; resurrects the hobbits following their death at the hands of a Barrow-wight; is the oldest living being in Middle-earth, yet seemingly not of Middle-earth; spe
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