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Бомбадила звали Йарвайн Бен-адар, Старейший и Безотчий. Так что родителей у него совершенно точно не было.
Кто он по сути, неизвестно.
"And even in a mythical Age there must be some enigmas, as there always are. Tom Bombadil is one (intentionally)." (Письмо 144)
"...he is then an 'allegory', or an exemplar, a particular embodying of pure (real) natural science: the spirit that desires knowledge of other things, their history and nature, because they are 'other' and wholly independent of the enquiring mind, a spirit coeval with the rational mind, and entirely unconcerned with 'doing' anything with the knowledge: Zoology and Botany not Cattle-breeding or Agriculture . " (Письмо 153)
Распространено мнение (и я, признаюсь, с ним согласен), что он всё же Майа, но с уверенностью утверждать это нельзя.
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«And it seems to the fairies and it seems to me who know that town and have often trodden its disfigured ways that autumn and the falling of the leaf is the season of the year when maybe here or there a heart among Men may be open, and an eye perceive how is the world's estate fallen from the laughter and the loveliness of old. Think on Kortirion and be sad - yet is there not hope?» J.R.R. Tolkien
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