Tom Bombadil Confirmed For The Rings of Power Season 2! | Lord of the Rings News 

Tom helps Meteor Man kick his crack addiction by introducing him to pipe weed.

Omg...please no! That can't possibly do this right. Peter Jackson had enough respect to not even try.

that’s not jack black 🥲

Is Tom going to hunt trolls with Galadriel?

This trailer is basically the Blue Wizard origin story. I bet you Tom Bombadil gives the Stranger his blue robe and pointy hat and POOF, the Stranger becomes the Blue Wizard. Notice Tom isn't wearing his blue robe and hat at the end.

It shows the ignorance of the show runners saying Tom lives in Withywindel when it’s just the river that runs through the Old Forest, where he actually lives.

Bombadil's hat looks awfully familiar. Bet he gives it to "not gandalf"

The best Tom Bombadil was in the dramatized audiobook that uses the music from the Peter Jackson trilogy.

Hey look...it's Tom 'Morgoth' Bombadil 🤦‍♂️😂

No telling what the showrunners will do with Tom Bombadil, but I will have to read about it and watch your review of season 2. I am not hopeful that they will treat him with the respect he deserves.

He better have the feather

Guess they felt like ruining another character

I think you've hit on Tom Bombadil's role in the show. The key is the star chart incorporated into the ceiling of his dwelling. Tom will guide the Stranger and his companions onto their proper course.

I think given the feedback they can still make his coat look more blue and boots more yellow with some editing

indeed, good described, Withywindle being confused with the Old Forest seems to indicate that they are careless in their approach

Don't. Just don't. No one can properly explain this character, let it remain a mystery...

A very good point that not a single one of the images has even the suggestion of a smile. Dingy colors, serious face. This is Bombadil? The Tolkien Curmudgeon (myself) will be "curmudgeon-watching" the second season, if you care to follow along on my ultra-low-tech Tolkien channel...

I think tom, was a comforting idea when Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring because up until that point the fellowship is quite dark. It's a kind of what are we going to do situation. I think Tolkien wanted everyone to relax because he knew how anxious we all would be. And Tom Nails that. He is peace, he is calm he is the eye of the storm. Tom has always been, simply put he is.

In regards to the films it's like they just followed the bbc dramatized performance.

First live adaptation of tom bombadil was is the soviet lotr movies, that was a truly weird movie

straight to the bin

Tom is an incredibly complex character and has been everywhere on Middle-earth.

Tom is...in Rhun? huh?

Tom was not jolly when he was saving the hobbits from Old Man Willow and the Barrow-wights! He has incredible gravitas and seriousness. Gandalf the White didn't spend time with him at the end of the quest just to share a few jokes!!!

Tom Bombadil> Rings of Sour

FWIW he has appeared in other adaptations, just not very mainstream ones. Not really important to the points you raised, but i have always had a soft spot for the character as well as weird adaptations. So sharing a supercut someone else made of his weird, fun appearances ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MM2c-qe-Pss.html

Ugh, well if anyone can spin this into gold it will be Rory Kinnear. His Frankenstein's monster character in Penny Dreadful was a masterful piece of character acting. I suspect that this will be repeat of the one good actor in S1, Adar/Malwe, that decided to book it once he realized what a croc he had been given

You hit the nail on the head , where's the smile

I hope it is a musical episode.

In lore Gandalf met Tom Bombadil once, but like thats it lol, what is amazon trying??

Who cares? Rings of Power is bad fanfiction with a bigger budget.

Worried. After season one, worried!

I hope they don't try to pin his origins. Tom was left a mystery on purpose.

PJ didn't want to include the sequence with Tom Bombadil because it didn't advance the story. (Which he was absolutely right about.) Amazon can safely wrap old Tom into their series. After all, it doesn't have a story to drive forward...

I appreciate you. So many Tolkien RU-vidrs I follow have become RoP shills. You guys keep it real .

oh my hearties,I just can't picture Tom wo a smile,full stop,nada,nyet and noo.😅

12:38 I’m pretty sure the third image of Tom looking happy is Mel Gibson.

I have all the confidence one can muster. They will completely fuck it up.

I think Tom and Goldberry could be the 2 Blue Wizards (reincarnated like Gandalf) I think they went to Rhûn and Khand and vanished...

I feel like they added him just to get attention from real lotr fans, but I agree. He should be jolly, the actor is a good actor but I'm having trouble picturing him as a jolly fellow that sings all the time. I'm skeptical

I said to myself right at the start of the video why is he not looking happy.

Maybe they will surprise us and season 2 will be good. Id like it to be.

As you already mentioned, these first photos are some way off in too many ways. Plus, Bombadil is a very difficult character to include in an adaptation, as he's very uninvolved with Middle-Earth, there is a reason others have skipped him and I highly doubt that these people are THE ones that are going to pull it off successfully. In conclusion, my elf eyes see a fail incoming

there's no way he's going to be done right

GIANT PILES OF TOM BOMBADOODY

man i wonder from whom not-gandalf will get his iconic hat from...

Tom is an unwaving ray of light and joy in a dark world and that's where his power lies. If he is anything other than this they have portrayed him very wrong.

Tom, an ancient being, like the Ents, not particulary interested in the coming going of lesser beings. Unless they are doing damage to their corner of the world...then they kick some butt.

God it's really nauseating to read comments by Payne and McKay. Everything they say is pure bullocks.

That is really to bad

They want to make a character who's entire ESSENCE is being bright and vivid... not bright and vivid.... Not even sure I can hate watch this next season

Tom: Hey Gandalf try some of this pipe weed with me. It’s great. Not habit forming at all.

Oh no

I don't hate the look, bright yellow boots would be hard to incorporate into a live action setting without it looking off. But i don't like how serious he looks in all these photos. He doesn't look like a jolly fellow!

They’re just gonna do anything they can think of to try and pull some fans in. There’s no way any of this can go well

Brian Blessed would have played the perfect Tom Bombadil when younger. Too bad we have lost the chance to see him in the role...

Tom would have been in the world during the 2nd age... but I don't like the idea of this... Amazon is ruining the 2nd age stories

I haven't watched Rings of Power, so perhaps I shouldn't comment, but this feels very wrong. From what I saw advertised and reviewed of Season 1 though, it's probably just following form. Tom Bombadil should just be left out of things, as he kind of is outside of things (he is like a personification of Nature) - mention him, perhaps yes, but leave a little something up to the imagination of the reader/viewer.

Ahh, so they're going to ruin Bombadil, too.

What a desperate move to drum up interest. Yikes. But it works. Now I have to see how badly they botch it.

Is the Broken Sword available on another platform Google/RU-vid censorship algorithms are again deleting my comments.

I bet it's Sauron wearing a wig

I'd rather not see Tom Bombadil in a great film, than see him in the bloody awful Rings of Power. 😢

The article is very clear. Just as Tom Bombadil does not direct the Hobbits and participate directly in the story in the book, he will not direct The Stranger and participate in the story in the series fiction. This is what will happen. I don't see anything to worry about in this.

gritty reboot TB. way to go, amazon!

Nit the first .... he is in the Russian film TV show

Just some advice. When doing pop outs of articles try highlighting the important bits you are reading. Easier for viewers.

They lost me forever in the first season by episode 3. I dont care what they do now going forward unless they make an apology and say they are going to do a complete do over with actors who can actually act and writers who can actually write and keeping political agendas and woke ideals out of a classic story.

They’re going to Rhun everything.

Ahh yes of course so Shelob is Bombabils daughter got it got it. It all makes sense now

Amazons The rings power isn't cannon. It's rubbish

All I see is just another multimillionaire flop.

To everyone who likes RoP, I really didn't want to rain on your parade, but can someone please someone explain why you think the following scenes and writing choices in season 1 are worthy of Tolkien 🤣 🤮 - -Galadriel jumps from a boat and plans to swim the sea all the way back to middle earth, but then casually meets Sauron; Did the writers even know that Feanor and his forces had to massacre the Teleri to get ships, but Galadriel here casually face palmed everyone by showing they could just simply swim 😆 - Galadriel and almost everyone else in the village tanked pyroclastic materials from a volcanic eruption straight in the face and survived it without any burnt injuries; -Celebrimbor and Elrond travel from Eregion to Moria without a horse, a security escort and without any dirt on their robes; - the Harfoots singing "never leave anyone behind" yet when someones too old, get lost, or injured, they leave them behind without batting an eye; - Volcano erupting after being poured by water then the place turned into Mordor (even Melkor in Year of the lamps is now scratching his head); -Numenorians specially Elendil continue to praise the sea and say "the sea is always right" despite the fact that his wife drowned (shouldn't he feel contempt?) ; -Elves in the watch tower who are supposed to have ultra clear eye sight even from afar failed to detect the tunnel being built by orcs almost under their noses; -Celebrimbor who is supposed to be a master blacksmith, doesn't know anything about using alloys; -the villagers and Galadriel decided to make their stand against Adar's forces in a village with no walls and fortification, instead of that watch tower with walls and a single path where they could pick off approaching orcs: -Galadriel's whole revenge arc being pointless because according to Tolkien's lore, all dead elves will someday get resurrected. I'm already setting aside the fact that this show isn't connected to anything Tolkien wrote narratively, and yet I still find myself unable to immerse because of these stupid writing decisions🤣. You really have to turn your brain off when you watch this show🤣

Everything we know about Tom suggests that he was not out East or that he has ever been a wanderer. It feels like bad fanfic.

Thanks for taking an additional dump on Tolkien.

Considering they didn’t race swap him, I wouldn’t be surprised if a female or race swapped character shows him up

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omg..we live in hell

I hope they stick with Tom origins, which is unknown.

this is gonna be horrible...

No one with credibility supports this or is happy about it. They openly admit they are changing this character. Not even hiding it.

We are all being decieved. The showrunners dislike Tolkien, as they are trying to ruin it for the next generation of potential fans. Maybe they wasn't allowed to join the college Tolkien society back in the day and still hold a grudge. How could they be so off the mark with it all, its all so frustrating. This show could have been amazing.

Hopefully they don't spend 90% of screen time on really boring characters, like season 1.

Bombadil bout to drop some knowledge bombs (that's not particularly relevant to anything) yo!

Not a fan of Tom at all but love the actor so mixed feelings. It appears this Tom has an influence on Gandalf's classic look.

Tom bombadil does more to hurt the stakes of the books than to be useful to the plot

Tom Bombadil and Goldberry being Morgoth' and Ungoliant is an old rumour already debunked as a fake scoop months ago, right along with the rumour that Sauron has a son in the show, none if it is true. Something that a well reputed channel like this should know by now. I can't believe it is still being repeated smh

So he will be an Irish female then? 😁👍 ❤

What the fuck.

I'm sorry, but even that stare on the Bombadil actor's face,.. that right there is no look Tolkein's Bombadil would ever give., under any circumstance, ever! It could not be any further from any part of Bombadil's character if they tried. I suspect that is the point. These weaksauce simpletons are so mad their ineptitude was mocked they are determined to poop on every single thing that real Tolkein fans might love.

No it's Toms no1 fanboy Don Bumbadildo

"tom bombadil odd"... i mean, yes he should be. he even confused gandalf. i also picture him as vividly bright. but for a live action, i think tonining that down is good since it is only recently that we really got vivid clothing. the "always happy tom" just feels too "uncle toms cabin" . too much of a sterotype and that they would be out of touch. now tom bombadil might be that out of touch in the 2nd age, he was in the 3rd.. but if he is walking around and seeing entire realms destroyed i dont think he would be.

Why does the merry fellow who prances and sings in bright clothes look miserable? Did the actor realize what show he was in? Or did black/gay/feminist Goldberry just lecture him about the patriarchy? Im guessing its the latter

Oh gawd... This show is such a disappointment...

Can’t wait to hear about how they totally butcher this amazing character….

Good lord, Tom's costume looks so bad and the lighting/colors are right in line with the drab, undersaturated look that RoP seems to be going for. Against my better judgement I stuck it out and finished the trainwreck which is RoP season one. The show is so poorly written and the costumes are laughable. I can't put myself through another season of it.

You’re way too soft on the show and the people involved. It is deeply disturbing, what they done and will do. They deserve a much harsher criticism.

Jeff bezos is just trying to ride on the back of Tolkien and Peter Jackson. But instead of riding on the back of them. he's more like dangling at there coattails!

This looks bad for this character no bright colors like blue, yellow and brown. Relaxed facial and body language. No expression of being happy and joyful too stoic and serious. Really in Rhun?!?! Plus he has no real place in this show,this portrayal is Dead on Arrival, this is what happens when you fire Tom Shippey they just do whatever.