i just wanted to comment on the exclusion of tom bombadil in the films. i think the reason he is not in the films is because you have to really focus your film on what is essential to driving the film forward. i do not know about other places but american audiences are quite fickle and have very short attention spans. tolkien himself said bombadil was not essential to the novels, he was more for commentary and to be an intentional enigma in the story. as peter had to cut a great many specifics, i guess bombadil was one of the cuts.
(i can read the french but cannot speak/write it on my own yet)
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