Would Tom Bombadil be allowed to go to the Blessed Realm

[Gamil Zirak]

Tom Bombadil and the Blessed Relm

Would Tom Bombadil be allowed to go to Aman in the west? Afterall, he was a ring-bearer like Frodo, Sam, and Bilbo. Although, he only wore it for a short moment. I doubt he would care about going to the Blessed Relm, but would he be allowed to go.

 

[Lantarion]

There is no way I would ever call Tom Bombadil a Ringbearer. He wore it for about twelve seconds!! A Ringbearer is somebody who attempts to destroy the Ring and caries it with him with good intent. Tom certainly didn't have bad intent, because he had no intent at all! He just wanted to prove to Frodo that the Ring was not as powerful and dominating as Gandalf and others had thought.
Anyway, I think he could have gone to Valinor in Aman, because he was some sort of magical creature maybe sent by the Valar or even Ilúvatar. But I doubt he would have wanted to, with his lands to see to and with Goldberry waiting.

 

[Mormegil]

I agree. He wouldn't be allowed into Valinor because he held the ring for 2 seconds. The reason he would be allowed into Valinor would be because he was, some people might argue, a Maia/Valar/Nature Spirit/ Eru incarnate.

 

[Sam_Gamgee]

he came from valinor hes a valar (thast my theory)

 

[Turgon]

Personally I don't think Tom would even consider going to the Blessed Realm. To me Tom seems like an earth spirit, tied to his geographical location (rather like a dryad is tied to her tree). That's where his power comes from, he is the Master, the spirit of place. I can imagine Tom still living up, down, underhill when all around him is steel and concrete and the Withywindle choked with plastic bags and shopping trolleys... Poor Tom...

 

[Rangerdave]

Tom's realm

Why would he want to? I would assume that where-ever Tom is, if Goldberry is with him, is a blessed realm.

The Valar would probably welcome him, just to have somebody different in the neighborhood, but Tom is a Moss gatherer and happy where he is

RD

 

[Eomer Dinmention]

I think Tom would be alloud, because his like an enigma. His probably like some mystical creature or something

But why would Tom want to. He lives in a beautiful home. He's always happy, everywhere his always singing and singing. And when you have a wife like Goldberry why would ya? lol

 

[Olorgando]

Perhaps in LoTR sailing to the West is akin to "Heaven" or being granted Immortality and thus, in a sense, returning to Eru.

Um, not quite. JRRT didn't tamper with his own beliefs as far as Men were concerned, having them leave the circles of the world - to which, btw, even the Valar are bound for the duration of Arda. JRRT's Blessed Lands were a place that at least all Elves could go to, something more akin to the Arthurian Avalon - about which I an seriously less informed than about Arda! Bilbo and Frodo's journey into The West - since near the end of the Second Age somehow removed and invisible from Middle-earth-made-round - was very exceptional (as was Gimli's together with Legolas), and at least in Frodo's case, something of a healing purgatory. Hobbits are classified with us in JRRT's world, and share our fate beyond the circles of that world.

Tom Bombadil as the supreme enigma of Middle-earth. JRRT never comes close to explaining whether he was one of the singers of the Ainulindalë, thus one of the Ainur, or was sung into existence by it.

 

[Deimos]

My reply is a bit different, starting with the very human male who imagined Tom and wrote of him. JRRT was a Roman Catholic and likely rather devout. He wrote from his own worldview and that was Catholicism. In Catholicism, and most branches of the Christian tree, there will be an End, an Eschaton, a Finish to all when, according to Paul, God is All in All. Perhaps in LoTR sailing to the West is akin to "Heaven" or being granted Immortality and thus, in a sense, returning to Eru. I am both old and new to LoTR, having first read it 48 years ago and then revisiting it in the movie version...and having just today finished my rereading of the trilogy. So, I am no expert in Tolkien, but I am sure such are here and have more developed ideas and insights. My expertise lies elsewhere.

Glad to see you "got it right" about Tolkien and his Catholicism, and how it affected his world view.
A lot of people don't understand it (Tolkien's Catholicism) or conflate it with a farrago of hyper-apocalyptic "end times".

 

[d4rk3lf]

The question is not " would the Tom be allowed to go to the blessed realm".
The question is: "Would Tom consider blessed realm, privileged enough, to have him as a company"

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

Tom Bombadil and the Blessed Relm

Would Tom Bombadil be allowed to go to Aman in the west? Afterall, he was a ring-bearer like Frodo, Sam, and Bilbo. Although, he only wore it for a short moment. I doubt he would care about going to the Blessed Relm, but would he be allowed to go.

I believe he is one of the maiar so he'd be welcomed either way