Snicker…

WOW!! Good job! You know as much about Middle Earth
as I do!! Finally, someone who knows Middle
Earth! Most people think they know everything
there is to know about Middle earth just by
watching the movies! HAH!! well keep up the
good work! ( I wouldn’t be surprised if you are
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Okay, yeah. Big surprise there. I was a little irritated by this quiz, though, because I’m pretty sure Tolkien explicitly said that Tom Bombadil wasn’t a Valar. Goldberry says very succintly of Tom that “He is,” and in a letter to Mister Stanley Unwin, Tolkien calls Bombadil “the spirit of the (vanishing) Oxford and Berkshire countryside.” Firstly, there are fourteen Valar. and they all have names, and not a single one is called Tom Bombadil. Then again, they have many names. I suppose he could be a Vala, but I’m pretty sure the Valar were sent to Arda to defeat Melkor, and since Tom says he “knew the dark under the stars before the Dark Lord came from Outside,” I don’t think he was one of them. And probably more important, I think Gandalf, a Maia, would recognize a Valar.
And Tom isn’t God, or Il?vatar, despite how similar Goldberry’s “He is” may be to our “Jehovah”. Tolkien says, “There is no embodiment of the One, of God, who indeed remains remote, outside the World, and only directly accessible to the Valar or Rulers.” Seems rather clear cut to me.
Again, I think Tolkien sums it up. Tom’s a spirit, pure and simple, of the land. That, or he’s just a literary creation invented to wreak havoc on the minds of snobbish analysts and instill a bit of rhythmic fun into the book. Who knows. Merry dol derry dol indeed.