Radagast the Brown, version 2 (and a new flaw) (comments please!)

[erhershman]

Originally posted by Ineti
I'm inclined to agree with you. I just reread the two chapters with him in FOTR, and he could have gone with the hobbits, but chose to stay in the Old Forest with Goldberry.

YMMV of course.

I was under the impression that something about the nature of his being physically prevented from leaving the Old Forest. But then again, I may be incorrect, as I often am when it comes to Tolkien.

[thiskitty]

He left the forest to rescue Frodo and crew from the Barrow-wight. It was a reluctance to leave, not an inability to leave the forest that Bombadil had.

[Ineti]

Originally posted by erhershman
I was under the impression that something about the nature of his being physically prevented from leaving the Old Forest. But then again, I may be incorrect, as I often am when it comes to Tolkien.

In the Council of Elrond, in FOTR, Gandalf states that Bombadil chose to stay in the Old Forest. If I get a chance, I'll dig up a quote.

[erhershman]

Originally posted by Ineti
In the Council of Elrond, in FOTR, Gandalf states that Bombadil chose to stay in the Old Forest. If I get a chance, I'll dig up a quote.

You don't have to bother... I'm rereading the entire LotR right now (for the third time since the first movie came out, I might add ) and I found a few things that verify that.

[toadkiller]

I'm not sure that it is fair to say that Tom or Radagast played no part in the War of the Ring based upon what we read. Certainly we can say they should have played a greater one - but Gandalf knew from the begining that only a being of no visible merits would be able to sneak into Mordor, and that great resolve would be needed to actually destory the thing.

For all we know Radagast (and the Blue Wizard(s) for that matter) played an important role in distracting the eye from what was happening in front of it. Or that was not their age and their test comes later....

IMHO Tom was just following his own version of the Prime Directive....

[Jason Durall]

Ineti -

Did you ever get that new and improved writeup of Radagast done? I was looking forward to it, and wondered if I missed it on the Decipher boards.

Thanks,

Jason

[Ineti]

Originally posted by Jason Durall
Did you ever get that new and improved writeup of Radagast done? I was looking forward to it, and wondered if I missed it on the Decipher boards. [/B]

I'm doing it this week! Honest!

Seriously, though, I got back from vacation last week, and am finalizing my version of Radagast. His stats and such are done; I'm just researching and writing the texty bits.

I've also created a layout for my supplements, so once it's done, I'll be posting a PDF here and hope that everyone can download it and read it okay. I'm a PDF noob, so I hope it works for everyone.

Comments on the layout will be appreciated once it's released, of course.

So, sit tight. My goal is to have Radagast done and posted by the end of the week.

[Grutos]

I tend to disagree with the statement of Tom Bombadil. Sure, he could have gone ahead and added his talents and magicks to those of Gandalf. However, to say that he didn't care nor didn't assist would be false as well. Without Tom, the Hobbits would not have gotten much further than the barrows. He would have been an insane asset though - the combat and spells that could have been added --- but as was mentioned somewhere above, Tom could have been diverting attention in his own way. That much power can't go unnoticed - even a little distraction may have been all the Fellowship needed to sneak by here or there.

Not saying that other characters in the story didn't give a rat's butt about the goings-on of the other races, but I still can't see an Ishtari shrugging his shoulders towards a non-Shadow individual or people. But, that's me and how I read the book - which is normally concidered vastly different than how most read the book.

When it's not combat, it's magic - when it's neither, it's fast-forward to more spell flinging & sword dancing. Still trying to figure out where that romance BS between Arwyn & Aragorn occurred (yes, I'm joking).