Behind Bombadil's simple façade are hints of great knowledge and power, though limited to his own domain. He is mentioned in the chapter " The Council of Elrond" as a possible keeper and protector of the One Ring, as well as at the end of the story in " Homeward Bound" and " The Grey Havens". He appears in three chapters, " The Old Forest", " In the House of Tom Bombadil" and " Fog on the Barrow-downs". In the book, he is described as "Master of wood, water and hill", and nearly always speaks or sings in stress-timed metre: 7-beat lines broken into groups of 4 and 3 (old English metre as first noted in Caedmons Hymn in the story of Bede, discovered in the 19th century).
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He and his wife Goldberry, the "Daughter of the River", still live in their house on the Withywindle, and some of the characters and situations from the original poem appear in The Lord of the Rings. In The Lord of the Rings, Tom Bombadil is a mysterious character who aids Frodo and his companions on their journey. The poems were published in the collections The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and later in Tales from the Perilous Realm. The poem mentions a number of Middle-earth locations, including Hays-End, Bree and the Tower Hills, and hints at the events of the end of the Third Age, speaking of "Tall Watchers by the Ford, Shadows on the Marches". The poem includes a reference to the Norse lay of Ótr, when Bombadil threatens to give the hide of a disrespectful otter to the Barrow-wights, who he says will cover it with gold apart from a single whisker. At the end of the poem, the charmed birds and otters work together to bring Bombadil's boat home. Bombadil is challenged by various river-residents on his journey, including birds, otters and hobbits, but charms them all with his voice, ending his journey at the farm of Farmer Maggot, where he drinks ale and dances with the family.
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The later poem "Bombadil Goes Boating" anchors Bombadil in Middle-earth, featuring a journey down the Withywindle to the Brandywine river, where hobbits ("Little Folk I know there") live at Hays-End. Throughout the poem, Bombadil is unconcerned by the attempts to capture him and brushes them off with the power in his words. At the end of the poem, Bombadil captures and marries Goldberry. Several of the valley's mysterious residents, including the River-spirit Goldberry (also known as the "River-woman's daughter"), the malevolent tree-spirit Old Man Willow, the Badger-folk and a Barrow-wight, attempt to capture Bombadil for their own ends, but quail at the power of Tom's voice, which defeats their enchantments and commands them to return to their natural existence. Tolkien's 1934 poem "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" depicts Bombadil as a "merry fellow" living in a small valley close to the Withywindle river, where he wanders and explores nature at his leisure.
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Tolkien invented Tom Bombadil in memory of his children's Dutch doll, and wrote light-hearted children's poems about him, imagining him as a nature-spirit evocative of the English countryside. Appearances The Adventures of Tom Bombadil