lord of the rings - did gollum say sam was fat

And all that from one paragraph where Tom Bombadil holds the ring.īut it's not the end of the story. She says simply, ' He is.' Although she says it normally, the translation in Elvish is 'Ea,' which happens to be another name for the fires of creation that first made the world. Later, Frodo asks Tom's wife, Goldberry, who Bombadil is.

It works - he turns invisible - but as he tries to sneak away from the table, Bombadil calls him back and says 'Old Tom Bombadil's not as blind as that yet.' Based on the way Bombadil wasn't affected by the ring (and didn't try to keep it), it's obvious that Bombadil is above the influence of the ring. There was no sign of Tom disappearing!'Īfter that, Tom gives the ring back to Frodo 'with a smile' and Frodo waits for the right moment to put the ring on his own finger, just to make sure Bombadil didn't pull any ring-switching shenanigans.

For a moment the hobbits noticed nothing strange about this. When Frodo and the 'bits run into Tom Bombadil, there's a scene where he takes the ring and tries it on: 'Then Tom put the Ring around the end of his little finger and held it up to the candle-light.

Lord of the rings - did gollum say sam was fat