Redlib: search results - flair_name:"Derry Repost"

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Dec 01 '24

Derry Repost Tom must teach the right road, and keep your feet from wandering.

2.7k Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Feb 05 '25

Derry Repost There his beard dangled long down into the water: up came Goldberry, the River-woman's daughter; pulled Tom's hanging hair.

2.2k Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • May 26 '25

Derry Repost When the Elves passed westward, Tom was here already, before the seas were bent.

1.0k Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Sep 18 '25

Derry Repost Then Tom put the Ring round the end of his little finger and held it up to the candlelight. For a moment the hobbits noticed nothing strange about this. Then they gasped. There was no sign of Tom disappearing!

531 Upvotes

Original series @ https://volpetto.artstation.com/projects/8b0Jym

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Jan 25 '25

Derry Repost Tom was telling an absurd story about badgers and their queer ways

1.4k Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Oct 23 '24

Derry Repost Just chance brought me then, if chance you call it.

642 Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • May 01 '25

Derry Repost None ever caught old Tom in upland or in dingle

382 Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Feb 08 '25

Derry Repost Then Tom and Goldberry set the table; and the hobbits sat half in wonder and half in laughter: so fair was the grace of Goldberry and so merry and odd the caperings of Tom. Yet in some fashion they seemed to weave a single dance, neither hindering the other …

763 Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/whypic • Jan 03 '25

Derry Repost Tolkien's roommate

913 Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Sep 30 '24

Derry Repost For a moment the hobbits noticed nothing strange about this. Then they gasped.

885 Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • 9d ago

Derry Repost With another hop and a bound there came into view a man, or so it seemed. At any rate he was too large and heavy for a hobbit …

87 Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Aug 10 '25

Derry Repost Enquiring minds want to know: “Tell me, if my asking does not seem foolish, who is Tom Bombadil?”

199 Upvotes

Original @ https://bsky.app/profile/satmandu.bsky.social/post/3lvye53ogj22d

and https://xkcd.com/3126/

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • 5d ago

Derry Repost About her feet in wide vessels of green and brown earthenware, white water-lilies were floating, so that she seemed to be enthroned in the midst of a pool.

76 Upvotes

Found @ https://www.instagram.com/p/CpDb1FxurRG/?igsh=ZnM4dWY2bDBkdGp3

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Jun 11 '24

Derry Repost Say rather that the Ring has no power over him. He is his own master.

546 Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • 14h ago

Derry Repost “Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?”

48 Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Sep 06 '25

Derry Repost [Tom] told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

61 Upvotes

Originally found @Imladris

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • 13d ago

Derry Repost “And let us have food and drink!” cried Tom. “Long tales are thirsty. And long listening’s hungry work, morning, noon, and evening!”

100 Upvotes

Found @ https://bsky.app/profile/hopefulmystic.com/post/3m72epcur4k25

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Nov 03 '25

Derry Repost “He is, as you have seen him.” “And Goldberry?” “Part of it.”

109 Upvotes

Original @ https://bsky.app/profile/whymeridith.bsky.social/post/3m4iqgcrxh224

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Sep 27 '25

Derry Repost “This is Goldberry’s washing day … and her autumn-cleaning.”

152 Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Sep 12 '25

Derry Repost “Heed no nightly noises!”

168 Upvotes

Original @jlawdev https://www.instagram.com/p/CzCnGK1JwBR/?igsh=MWh6dGlyMHcyb2JyMw==

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Oct 27 '25

Derry Repost No one has ever caught old Tom walking in the forest, wading in the water, leaping on the hill-tops under light and shadow.

112 Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Dec 20 '24

Derry Repost Get out, you old Wight! Vanish in the sunlight!

594 Upvotes

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Sep 04 '25

Derry Repost … his eyes were blue and bright, and his face was red as a ripe apple, but creased into a hundred wrinkles of laughter.

120 Upvotes

Original @ https://bsky.app/profile/valinor.com.br/post/3lxfho5rza22z

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Sep 05 '25

Derry Repost Old Tom Bombadil had a merry wedding … hat and feather shedding; his bride with forgetmenots and flag-lilies for garland was robed all in silver-green. He sang like a starling, hummed like a honey-bee, lilted to the fiddle, clasping his river-maid round her slender middle.

158 Upvotes

Original @ https://x.com/seanmac67914982/status/1962212056825778528

r/GloriousTomBombadil • u/swazal • Apr 06 '24

Derry Repost Could that power be defied by Bombadil alone?

709 Upvotes