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That's such a Tom thing to do (fedia.io)
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[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

I know some consider this basically heresy, but I think the books would have been better off without Tom as well. I love the trilogy to bits, but the first book suffers from pacing issues and the amount of space the Tom Bombadil section takes up is a major contributing factor to that.