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10 Responses to “Note to Self: Less Gandalf, More Bombadil”

1. 1 IrrationalPoint
   October 13, 2009 at 12:03 pm

   I’d love to hear the story behind that. Was it a good party?

   –IP

2. 2 Clifford
   October 13, 2009 at 12:14 pm

   Party!? Er… no, was not a party!

   -cvj

3. 3 Sara Tompson
   October 13, 2009 at 1:18 pm

   More dancing and singing, less hobbit-lecturing and Balrog fighting?! Sounds good to me!

4. 4 Clifford
   October 13, 2009 at 3:51 pm

   The odd scrap with a Balrog is always exhilarating. Hard to give up…

   -cvj

5. 5 Clifford
   October 13, 2009 at 4:14 pm

   What it means, IP, is that I’m going to stop (or reduce severely) the running around solving problems and putting out fires and meddling and helping all and sundry to the point where I’m pulled apart in all directions… It’s getting me down a bit for various reasons. I’m going to try to be a bit more irrelevant for a while…

   -cvj

6. 6 Jennifer West
   October 14, 2009 at 12:26 am

   Advice is rarely needed or heeded, but I’m going to venture forth to say that this sounds wonderful. After a long time in the woods, minding your business and attending only to nature and thoughts, you’ll be gathering water lilies for far more gratitude than meddling gets you. But I agree about the Balrog…and the gleaming white Shadowfax, running like the wind…well, perhaps these things come in waves…

   For myself, I say less Éowyn, more Frodo. Three quarks for muster Tolkien!

7. 7 IrrationalPoint
   October 14, 2009 at 1:27 am

   Ah, completely misread that! I’m sorry things are a bit overwhelming. Take care, eh?

   –IP

8. 8 robert
   October 14, 2009 at 10:53 am

   Perhaps I really should get round to reading Lord of the Rings. It was bad enough forty years ago, not knowing what all my fellow hippy students were on about or realising why the bongo player in T Rex was called peregrine took. And I do concur - a little self indulgence can go a long way, and is not a bad thing.

9. 9 Heather
   October 15, 2009 at 1:17 pm

   This made me realize for the first time today why my dad has always seemed to like Tom Bombadil more, even though we always thought he was a Gandalf.

   Good luck with the reigning things in, but remember, even Tom Bombadil was never irrelevant.

10. 10 matt
    October 15, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    The Lord of the Rings rocks!

    My life is a bit like being in Moria at times. It’s very scary and unpredictable.

    I definitely know where you are coming from though. I’m kind of in the same place at the moment, at least I think.

    I enjoy helping people but sometimes it gets to the point where I don’t have much of a life myself anymore. It becomes all service which I truly believe is good in a spiritual sense somehow but it’s still a bit depressing when there are things I want to do but have to give up on.

    Anyway I can’t wait for The Hobbit films. They should be good.