I guess he’s almost festive when you put it like that 🤔

On the erasure of Bombadil, will defer to your better judgement, but might the problem for the film-makers have been how to make Tom himself not teeth-grindingly, get-up-and-leave-the-cinema annoying?

This is from limited reading, maybe his charms reveal themselves on re-reading, but… yeesh

Aw man, they deleted it (before my awesome fact checking gotcha) but the gist was “ the concept of stupidity has been around since the time of Socrates”

Someone found a YT link, so here you go: