An Excellent Spirit: Tom Bombadil, Goldberry and the Showing of Enigmas
Tom Bombadil: Dead Hobbits & Barrow-wights | TB Playing Cards | Tom Bombadil (TB) - Evolution | TB - Excellent spirit | TB - Guests, Hosts ... | Tolkien's Holy Spirit | Religious Bibliography | Tolkien's Koala | TB - Powers (Video) | TB - The Mystery Solved (Video) | TB - Who is? Part 1 (Video) | TB - Who is? Part 2 (Video) | TB - Who is he really? (Video) Daniel Côté Davis and Michael Organ The role of the Holy Spirit in J.R.R. Tolkien's prophetic writing style is brought to the fore in The Lord of the Rings through the characterisation of Tom Bombadil and his ‘River-daughter’ wife Goldberry as an apotheosis of the Divine Energy that inspired his vision. The dreams, visions, spiritual refreshment and charismatic gifts granted through their two enigmatic personas can be traced to biographic and narratival origin. The case can be mounted that, as Tolkien himself note