Bombadil is possibly my favorite enigma in all of Tolkien's work. You can dig all you want, but there is nothing, no lore. My own interpretation is that he is n

Bombadil is possibly my favorite enigma in all of Tolkien's work. You can dig all you want, but there is nothing, no lore. My own interpretation is that he is not part of the music of the children, but somehow an incarnation of the natural world that was created along side it. Tolkien focuses very much on how the music determines course of the history of middle earth, but Tom seems to be a kind of reminder that nature doesn't really care about us and will continue long after we are gone (unless we destroy it, but Tolkien's experience of the 20th century made human destruction of nature of secondary concern behind our destruction of our fellow man). Of course, the liar interpretation is always possible, but seems to undermine the importance of what the character represents.