# Talk:Tom Bombadil

Our article states:

"The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger.." then fails to mention that he is also a fiction writer and expert in Arthurian studies.
I could go on. Do I need to? There is no reason to single out one author here Special:Diff/1281339900/1281341617 listing every profession they are involved in. It's unrelated, trivial, a distraction and it reads like a biased attempt to discredit the author's work because they have done things besides literary analysis of Tolkien. -- GreenC 20:11, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

It's slightly disingenuous of you not to mention that we debated this at length back in 2022. I have no intention of reverting your edit, but I'll note that the psychological interpretation is at odds with the rest of the scholarly analyses, and hasn't been endorsed by any other scholar in the many years that have elapsed since. That remains true even though multiple Tolkien scholars have made use of pyschological analysis of other Middle-earth characters, so I've set the section in context by adding a see also link. By the way, Flieger is a woman. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:27, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Bobadil is an English word for "a blustering braggart". Anything in Tolkien sources that reference that? 141.195.57.101 (talk) 13:13, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Well, Wikipedia talk pages are WP:NOTFORUMs, so I'd not normally discuss such a thing. However, no recent source does so. It seems to have been mentioned once by an amateur in 1978, but given that the etymology is known, no-one has shown any interest in the sound-similarity since then. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:21, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

He appears in the 2nd season of The Rings of Power!
Nobody metions that here??? 47.64.198.182 (talk) 09:51, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

It is mentioned in the Adaptations section. DonIago (talk) 12:41, 10 July 2025 (UTC)