Sunday, April 3, 2016

Fictional Character, Fictional Life--Anya Slepyan


This prompt leads me to think in two different directions. The first is what character has the life or setting that I most want, the second is which character has the qualities I would most like to posses. Unsurprisingly, I found the perfect combination of these two ideas in one of the many minor characters included in the Lord of the Rings series. Tom Bombadil is essentially a magic nature spirit/hermit who just hangs out in the forest and sings all the time. Seriously. He's really happy (repeatedly described as jolly) and usually speaks in rhymes, just because he can. He has immense power, and has been variously interpreted by scholars as an angel, nature spirit, minor god, Odin, or a personification of the nature of middle earth itself. His story is largely unknown, and he is therefore seen as an anomaly in the highly detailed Lord of the Rings Series. Although Bombadil has immense power and abilities (because nature), he refuses to take an active role in human affairs. In the ongoing war between good and evil, he takes the difficult path of a pacifist. So to sum it up, he is a magical pacifist hermit who lives in the Lord of the Rings universe. Ultimate life goals.

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