There are many frightening places in "The Lord of the Rings". What are some of the details that are terrifying to consider?

There are too many. In one of them, who is Tom who rescues the hobbit?

Tom Bombadil rescued four hobbits from Old Willow. Tom Bombadil is one of the main mysterious characters in Tolkien's works. More than almost everything else in Middle-earth that is well described, Tom is a mystery. We can find almost no clues about him: his origin, destiny, purpose, or even racial affiliation. Tom's world is inhabited by a wide variety of races and beings: the problem is that, as far as we know, we cannot smoothly classify Tom into any one of them. He seems to have "immigrated" from somewhere else. In fact, his story is almost clear, at least on a literary level; but our concern here is to place Tom in the world of Toro. Although there are many candidates here, we can rule out most of them immediately: Tom is definitely not a human, a hobbit, a dwarf, or he does not belong to any race with limited life; and, obviously, everyone can be sure that he is not an orc, giant, orc. Monster, Ent, Dragon or Eagle! But despite this, there are still many possibilities left.

Brownies, fairies, pixie, leprechauns, and others that cannot be named, for they are so numerous... they were born before the world, and are older than the oldest , they do not belong to it, but mostly laugh at it..." "The Lost Story" Part One.

It is difficult not to connect this passage with Tom, which may be the inspiration for creating Tom ( "The Lost Story" predates Tom's first appearance in print by nearly a decade), a world in which natural creations were much more active than in today's world. , and it’s a big step to get to the character wearing yellow boots and living in the house.

What do you think?