“I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.”
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Over time, and under certain systems, Princeps revealed itself through numerous other related forms.
The twinkling gemstone.
The jewel of great power.
Princeps first appeared in the avatar of a small floating gem in the darkness.
When queried, Princeps replied:
“I am the Power.”
In a way, I think Tom Bombadil resides in more or less what I would consider the Buorth. Goldberry says “He is” and he’s referred to as master. It’s the domain of his power.
I read the part last night where the hobbits encounter Tom Bombadil in the Fellowship of the Rings. Awesome.
And it got me to wondering the age old question that has plagued philosophers for centuries: why wasn’t Tom Bombadil affected by the Ring?
I found various theories:
http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103559/did-the-ring-in-fact-affect-tom-bombadil
http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Theories_about_Tom_Bombadil
http://tolkien.cro.net/rings/tombom.html
And none of them really satisfied.
I think the thing that’s great about reading Tolkien is that the intuition of why gives flight to it making sense in the story and feeling right in that moment. To hear other people try to put it into words or frame it into some weird theory just makes it sound cheap.
Better to live with the mystery of knowing.