Beleg left Doriath to join Túrin’s band of outlaws only to find out Túrin turned them into a Jackass group doing nut-destroying, life-endangering, vomit-inducing stunts all day when they ain’t fighting orcs
“Then Glorfindel’s left hand sought a dirk, and this he thrust up that it pierced the Balrog’s belly nigh his own face (for that demon was double his stature); and it shrieked, and fell backwards from the rock
and falling clutched Glorfindel’s yellow locks beneath his cap, and those twain fell into the abyss.”
NEVER… AGAIN…
Alternatively titled ‘if Glorfindel had gone along with the fellowship all the bad things would have just run away’
Additional canon snapshot of Glorfindel’s expression just after he’d been dragged off the cliff under the cut.
So I was talking with my brother about Tom Bombadil and obviously at one point the “what if he’s a Valar” came up and my brother said that he could be a physical manifestation of that little part of Melkor’s mind which regrets, feels guilty and is trying to relieve stress by living close to the nature I’m done with LotR theories (╯°□°)╯ ┻━┻
Yes and the Goldberry is actually a part of Sauron’s spirit
…it could be a nice justification for popular theory of “The Hidden Evil-Bombadil”