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It's a long, dangerous journey, he know good food raise morale. His name is Samwise not Samdull.
Meanwhile, Tom Bombadull has the power to end the whole ordeal without breaking a sweat, and zero fucks to give.
His power only works in his forest. Outside it he would be no better than a common man.
And even him wouldn't be able to destroy the ring by himself, even on his forest.
In the books Gandalf and Elrond dicuss having Bombadil take the ring, or hide it in his forest. It would just slip his mind and end up worse than before
Quote from the book
That's interesting, I've never heard about this aspect of the character before. Where is it mentioned? One of Tolkien's letters maybe? Thanks in advance for any info!
There are implications that, that might be true, but it could be a self imposed restriction.