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In both, Bombadil says to the tree in question, You should not be waking.
Drink water … Go to sleep.
InLOTR, Bombadil is a character made complicated by his simplicity.
If he were given the Ring, he would soon forget it, or most likely throw it away.
Such things have no hold on his mind.
But he also isnt necessarily benevolent.
Take this as the insult its meant to be.
Tom Bombadil shouldnt be cute, and yet thats about the extent of hisTROPcharacterization.
Rory Kinnear gives him a lilting accent that makes Bombadil sound like a Cornish Forrest Gump.
Just as you belong to yourself.
And some that die deserve life.
Can you give it to them?
This Bombadil has no unfathomability, no sinister edge.
Hes like if the phrase aw shucks became sentient.
