I think he represents an interesting whiff of the much older, deeper beings in the world which are only fully covered in The Silmarillion. The fact that he's su

I think he represents an interesting whiff of the much older, deeper beings in the world which are only fully covered in The Silmarillion. The fact that he's such a being and also simple and light-spirited speaks to the underlying purity of goodness in the world that is the underlying theme of The Lord of the Rings, and I think that's beautiful. I do sympathize with the decision to cut him from the movies; his chapter was a large and neatly isolated part of the story, and the movies were strapped for screen time as it was. But it was still a loss.