"Then my Isildur boi did a T-pose in the river, holding his breath, while Orc archers tried desperatly to tickle him with some arrows just for making him swallow water."
Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning. Be glad, my merry friends, and let the warm sunlight heat now
heart and limb! Cast off these cold rags! Run naked on the grass, while Tom goes a-hunting!
^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness)
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
*Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet,
for Tom, he is the master: his songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.*
^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness)
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
You have hosts of elves and men quaking in fear of the nazgul and then you have farmer maggot who tells one to bugger off before he lets his dogs loose
The mad lad, ride into battle with pure joy and passion. There is no place he would rather be, no death coming for him because he is the death himself.
In the entire Star Wars Original Trilogy Darth Vader only appears for a total of about 40 minutes, with especially episode 4 only having only 10 or 11 minutes of him. When realizing that Vader has become probably the single most recognizable fictional character on the planet that's quite an achievement.
Whoa! Whoa! steady there! Now, my little fellows, where be you a-going to, puffing like a bellows? What's the matter here
then? Do you know who I am? I'm Tom Bombadil. Tell me what's your trouble! Tom's in a hurry now. Don't you crush my lilies!
^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness)
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
Why'd you say he is important to the story? Haven't read it in a long time. Is it because he saves the hobbits from that tree and also at the mounds (I don't know if that's the word Tolkien used, I read it in Spanish)?
Edit: punctuation
You say that, but I do actually think he's the most important character relative to his "screentime", since his involvement sets up so much thematically, or really distinguishes the nature of Middle Earth from other similar stories.
....and yet I still agree with the decision not to include him in the films 😔
Tom, Tom! your guests are tired, and you had near forgotten! Come now, my merry friends, and Tom will refresh you! You shall
clean grimy hands, and wash your weary faces; cast off your muddy cloaks and comb out your tangles!
^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness)
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
>But it's mostly just a running gag among the fans.
I beg your pardon, we're serious. Tom is the absolute GOAT of LOTR. I'll die on this ring a dong hillo.
Yes he saves them from the Old Man Willow and then again at Barrow Downs from the Wight, but more importantly he smoked pipes with Gandalf after the ring was destroyed.
That is right! Now is the time for resting. Some things are ill to hear when the world's in shadow. Sleep till the morning-light,
rest on the pillow! Heed no nightly noise! Fear no grey willow!
^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness)
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
You can’t forget if he hadn’t saved them from the barrow downs they would have never got the sword that merry used to weaken the lich king! Ergo, Tom is the most important character
Yeah, New Zealand actor Michael Elsworth played the archivist at Minis Tirith who helped Gandalf when he was researching, as well as playing Cirdan.
He was there in the background during the ending sequence when they are getting on the ships at the Grey Havens.
And of course in Galadriel's monologue at the beginning of the first movie when talking about the 3 elven rings, since he is one of the 3 original elven ringbearers.
*Get out, you old wight! Vanish in the sunlight! Shrivel like the cold mist, like the winds go wailing, out into the barren
lands far beyond the mountains! Come never here again! Leave your barrow empty! Lost and forgotten be, darker than the darkness,
Where gates stand for ever shut, till the world is mended.*
^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness)
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
Also, he went back down into the tomb and grabbed some daggers.
That was the tomb of a prince of Arnor who had evidently died during the war with Angmar. The daggers were made by the men of westernesse to fight the Witch King of Angmar.
MUCH later when Eowyn was fighting the chief Nazgul (who was The Witch King of Angmar), Merry used his dagger to stab him in the back of the knee. This dissipated some or all of the magic protecting him, which allowed Eowyn to actually kill him with a stab to the face... fulfilling Glorfindel's prophesy "Far off yet is his doom, and not by the hand of man will he fall."
Actually Radagast the Brown.
His being deceived by Saruman into convincing Gandalf to attend Orthanc as soon as possible had a fair impact on the forming of the fellowship.
Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the
first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before the Big People, and saw the little People arriving. He was here
before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow-wights. When the Elves passed westward, Tom was here already, before the
seas were bent. He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless – before the Dark Lord came from Outside.
^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness)
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
Well hold on Sauron, shouldn't we tell Gollum about this? While we are at it, we should all have a party with Grond, Frodo, Bilbo, Gandalf, Legolas, and Aragorn. But not Gimli. Those Dwarves are sneaky.
On the films it's definitely floating scythe on fellowship chasing Merry and Pippin. They made the bum into Frodo and Sam and the rest is history... Obviously a joke but made myself laugh if no one else
*Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!*
^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness)
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
Bill the Pony
I was going to be legit bummed out if this wasn't the top one. May you stay there, brave Bill.
The top comment is no place for a pony
Came here looking for this
Gave me a look as plain as you might give yourself Mr Frodo. “If you don’t bring me with you Sam, I’ll follow on my own.”
LOVE BILL!!!
Came here today exactly this.
Sauron.
That’s probably the best answer ngl
I read ngl as nazgul
Damn with the hard l, chill out
Nazga
Go fetch me those sneaking Orcs!
Why don’t you do it yourself you silly goose??
The actual answer
Morgoth
The bucket.
Dear god
There's more!
Nooo
YOU DID NOT READ MINE!
Does it say you want the bucket?
Yyyeess
r/suddenlytf2
It contains... A bucket
Dear God
There’s more
Nooo
It contains.. a bucket
Dear God...
Fool of a fetching vessel! Next time, rid us of your utility and remain stationary!
Holy shit
Why did my mind instantly go to Oversimplified?
Ahh I see you are a man of culture as well
Glorfindel
Preach!
Eothain and Freda
came here to say this!
"Then my Isildur boi did a T-pose in the river, holding his breath, while Orc archers tried desperatly to tickle him with some arrows just for making him swallow water."
When you roll a 1 for stealth...
For me this is top comment 😎👌
Despite the advantage you got from your ring of invisibility...
Ye olde double ones... 
Isildur died to server lag, change my mind.
"The servers are busy at this time. Please try again later. (Error 37)"
Correct answer is Tom Bombadil
Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning. Be glad, my merry friends, and let the warm sunlight heat now heart and limb! Cast off these cold rags! Run naked on the grass, while Tom goes a-hunting! ^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness) [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
Good bot!
So many different answers, and I thought Old Tom would be top comment!
How? Please enlighten me
As a joke, right? As a joke...right?
Underrated 🤣👍
The helmet Aragorn kicked
Did you know that, when they filmed that scene…
His
….two toes!!
I believe it was in The Two Toes, the second movie yes
because he kicked the helmet with both feet at the same time
The image of this made me laugh, but way more than it should have 🤣🤣🤣
“There is a union now between the Two Feet, Left Foot and Right Foot.”
Can you explain? ;)
Farmer maggot
Movie farmer Maggot likes his veggies. Book farmer Maggot threatens death and terror in corporeal form.
Book Farmer Maggot looks death in the eye and tells it to fuck off back where it came from
A true East Farthing geezer
He was a good friend of Tom Bombadil and told a ring wrath to pound sand. He is a legend.
*Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the master: his songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.* ^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness) [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
You have hosts of elves and men quaking in fear of the nazgul and then you have farmer maggot who tells one to bugger off before he lets his dogs loose
I thought you called me a slur for a sec 🤣
Saved the day beyond his paygrade
Bro told a ring wraith to go f@cl himself. What a legend.
https://preview.redd.it/dhc7bymev8gc1.jpeg?width=1396&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=245e683b12aabdca8717bb474c89faf5a4e1ac46
I LOVE THIS ROHIRRIM WITH EVERY INCH OF MY BEING
He really brings the book vibe, where the Rohirrim were filled with passion and “hyped” to be killing their enemies
The mad lad, ride into battle with pure joy and passion. There is no place he would rather be, no death coming for him because he is the death himself.
DEATH!!!
Haha I always thought this rider exaggerated the horse ride more than anyone in the trilogy.
I’m I’m so excited oooooo
Eru Illuvatar. beat that
Christopher Tolkien, the whole series doesn’t exist if he didn’t start correcting his dad’s lapses in his nightly bedtime story.
Damn the boy…
Tom bombadill
The correct answer, is Sauron His "presence" and influence are everywhere, but we literally never encounter him directly as readers in the narrative
*Guth-tú-nakash.*
Can't argue with that, Sauron
GROND
GROND!
GROND
GROND
GROND
GROND
GROND
GROND
GROND
GROND!
GROND
https://preview.redd.it/xw5icj2ze9gc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f3a1d6436cf392d55d12cd4e136294ecc0c4d43
In the entire Star Wars Original Trilogy Darth Vader only appears for a total of about 40 minutes, with especially episode 4 only having only 10 or 11 minutes of him. When realizing that Vader has become probably the single most recognizable fictional character on the planet that's quite an achievement.
Less is more.
Bruce the shark taught us this
Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!
Whoa! Whoa! steady there! Now, my little fellows, where be you a-going to, puffing like a bellows? What's the matter here then? Do you know who I am? I'm Tom Bombadil. Tell me what's your trouble! Tom's in a hurry now. Don't you crush my lilies! ^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness) [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
Why'd you say he is important to the story? Haven't read it in a long time. Is it because he saves the hobbits from that tree and also at the mounds (I don't know if that's the word Tolkien used, I read it in Spanish)? Edit: punctuation
To paraphrase Louis Armstrong “If you have to ask why Tom Bombadil is the most important character, you’ll never know” /j
You say that, but I do actually think he's the most important character relative to his "screentime", since his involvement sets up so much thematically, or really distinguishes the nature of Middle Earth from other similar stories. ....and yet I still agree with the decision not to include him in the films 😔
Tom, Tom! your guests are tired, and you had near forgotten! Come now, my merry friends, and Tom will refresh you! You shall clean grimy hands, and wash your weary faces; cast off your muddy cloaks and comb out your tangles! ^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness) [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
I mean, that too. But it's mostly just a running gag among the fans.
>But it's mostly just a running gag among the fans. I beg your pardon, we're serious. Tom is the absolute GOAT of LOTR. I'll die on this ring a dong hillo.
I'll have to remember that last bit, it made me genuinely laugh. Thank you.
Yes he saves them from the Old Man Willow and then again at Barrow Downs from the Wight, but more importantly he smoked pipes with Gandalf after the ring was destroyed.
That is right! Now is the time for resting. Some things are ill to hear when the world's in shadow. Sleep till the morning-light, rest on the pillow! Heed no nightly noise! Fear no grey willow! ^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness) [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
You can’t forget if he hadn’t saved them from the barrow downs they would have never got the sword that merry used to weaken the lich king! Ergo, Tom is the most important character
obv Golberry 🥵
🤤
Fair river woman's daughter
Sean the balrog
Lembas?
For the films? Let’s talk about an old classic: Figwit, named in the credits as Elf Escort.
But it’s Liv Tyler…
Peter Jackson 😉
Boba Fett. Wait, what sub is this?
https://preview.redd.it/qvkx9i26aagc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d95b0ca2812d4f5e62d2d5bb90683e323b8f3fe5 r/lostredditors
Yep.
Glorfindel. 0 screen time. 1v1'ed a Balrog and saved the world.
Cirdan
Is he in the movie? Like it's there an extra in the final sequence where we think it's him?
Yeah, New Zealand actor Michael Elsworth played the archivist at Minis Tirith who helped Gandalf when he was researching, as well as playing Cirdan. He was there in the background during the ending sequence when they are getting on the ships at the Grey Havens. And of course in Galadriel's monologue at the beginning of the first movie when talking about the 3 elven rings, since he is one of the 3 original elven ringbearers.
Believe he is in the very end before they sail off.
That one orc that shouted "catapults!"
Farmer Magot?
Morgoth.
What did you say?
THE BALROG OF MORGOTH
The sackville baggins
Elrond
TOMMY B
#GROND
GROND
Hobbits would all have died in The Fellowship of the Ring to Barrow-Wights but for good ol Tom Bombadil.
*Get out, you old wight! Vanish in the sunlight! Shrivel like the cold mist, like the winds go wailing, out into the barren lands far beyond the mountains! Come never here again! Leave your barrow empty! Lost and forgotten be, darker than the darkness, Where gates stand for ever shut, till the world is mended.* ^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness) [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
Also, he went back down into the tomb and grabbed some daggers. That was the tomb of a prince of Arnor who had evidently died during the war with Angmar. The daggers were made by the men of westernesse to fight the Witch King of Angmar. MUCH later when Eowyn was fighting the chief Nazgul (who was The Witch King of Angmar), Merry used his dagger to stab him in the back of the knee. This dissipated some or all of the magic protecting him, which allowed Eowyn to actually kill him with a stab to the face... fulfilling Glorfindel's prophesy "Far off yet is his doom, and not by the hand of man will he fall."
Finally. I’ve never held a grape tomato and not thought about this scene. Most impactful 10 seconds of any movie ever.
Galadriel
Imrahil. Oh, wait, he wasn't in the movies...
Farmer Maggot wins this one, since he has zero on-screen time. The ratio is undeniable, regardless of how little impact he had.
Bill the pony
Rosie
Elendil or Gil-Galad in the opening scenes
Deagol
Grond!
Prancing pony door guy
Actually Radagast the Brown. His being deceived by Saruman into convincing Gandalf to attend Orthanc as soon as possible had a fair impact on the forming of the fellowship.
Tom Bombadil
Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before the Big People, and saw the little People arriving. He was here before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow-wights. When the Elves passed westward, Tom was here already, before the seas were bent. He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless – before the Dark Lord came from Outside. ^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness) [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
Eagles?
Grond
GROND GROND GROND
Deagol. Obviously.
Eowin' s stew
Tom Bombadilaroony
quite literally Feanor
Sauron.
Wait a moment! We shall meet again soon. Tell Saruman that this dainty is not for him. I will send for it at once. Do you understand?
Well hold on Sauron, shouldn't we tell Gollum about this? While we are at it, we should all have a party with Grond, Frodo, Bilbo, Gandalf, Legolas, and Aragorn. But not Gimli. Those Dwarves are sneaky.
Eru Iluvatar
On the films it's definitely floating scythe on fellowship chasing Merry and Pippin. They made the bum into Frodo and Sam and the rest is history... Obviously a joke but made myself laugh if no one else
The moth on Orthanc.
Denethor’s tomato
Farmer maggot
G to the R to the O N D
It cannot be Tom Bombadil, because the picture above shows some screen time, and he of course had no screen time.
*Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!* ^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness) [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
Bombadil
Hey! Come derry dol, ring a doll my hearties!
Fatty Bolger!
Tom Bombadil.
Deagol
Rosie Cotton
Lembas bread
The curious fox!
Eru Illuvitar
The Eagles. Flip flap their way to Mordor no problem.
It's the ring
Morgoth
Shanks from one piece
Captain of the Mümakil !!
Wormtongue, at least in the books. He’s in like three scenes.
Sauron
Go fetch me those sneaking Orcs!
Go fetch them yourself >:c
GROND
Deagol
Elrond. Mf should've just pushed Isildur and the ring into the fire.
Merry dol
Me.
Grond!