Tom Bombadil

plural Tom Bombadils

1. A jolly and eccentric individual.

   Don Pape, for hearing unheard voices, for unyielding ad-vocacy, and for your bright mirth. You are the Tom Bombadil of literary agents.

   2025, Heath Hardesty, Jon Tyson, All Things Together: How Apprenticeship to Jesus Is the Way of Flourishing in a Fragmented World, PRH Christian Publishing

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   Today's determined Appalachian trekkers and day-tripping city folk on meetups appreciating Anthony's Nose, Bear Mountain, Breakneck, Storm King need to tip their hats and toast to the "Tom Bombadil of the Hudson Highlands," William Thompson Howell.

   2018, Jonathan Kruk, Legends and Lore of the Hudson Highlands, Arcadia Publishing

   The only non-tenured faculty member who stood up to the pressure to sign his department's statement was Jeffrey Strabone, Professor of English, a remarkably individuated figure (the Tom Bombadil of the tale), who was not subject to the peer pressure that had so many other "cats" toeing the line." Most faculty signed just assuming that they, like everyone else, were doing the right thing.

   2020, Richard Landes, Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College, Academic Studies Press