An AI image of Tom Bombadil as a somewhat jaunty, rakish hippy biker! Image created by RebelBikerDude using Grok
One of the most enigmatic characters in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium is Tom Bombadil. who first appeared in Tolkien's 1934 poem 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil', but later reappeared in The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), the first novel in Tolkien's epic LOTR trilogy, rescuing the hobbits Merry & Pippin from the evil tree Old Man Willow, then saving all four hobbits from the clutches of an equally malevolent barrow-wight (my Bikerverse versions of these grim entities can be viewed here).
What makes Tom so mysterious & intriguing is that despite resembling a short, elderly human in outward form, he has apparently existed since the very dawn of time itself, even before the coming of Sauron, the Dark Lord - whose supposedly all-powerful One Ring uniquely exerted no effect or influence whatsoever over Tom. Indeed, even a person wearing it & who was thereby rendered invisible to everyone else could still be seen perfectly by Tom.
So he is in effect a primal, elemental being, the oldest one of all, in fact, with a particular affinity to nature, but most especially to the immediate expanse of the natural world directly encompassing his modest forest-ensconced house, which he shares with his wife Goldberry, a river nymph.
Tom's distinctive garb is a somewhat rakish, colourful combination of bright blue jacket, green girdle, leather breeches, yellow boots, and a tall battered hat with a long blue feather sticking jauntily out from it. This somewhat unconventional attire may have helped inspire the Harvard Lampoon in thei hilarious 1969 LOTR parody novel, Bored of the Rings, to spoof Tom as a drug-addled happy hippy named Tim Benzedrine!
Anyway, here in my Bikerverse-set LOTR pastiche, Tom, like everyone else in it, is a biker, and because he dates back to the onset of all existence, this means that he is in fact the very first biker - a truly awesome claim to fame! So, welcome to my present gallery dedicated to this very charismatic character, in which I've portrayed him for the most part not in his traditional guise as an old long-bearded fellow but instead in his Bikerverse form as ever-youthful, at times somewhat hippyesque, but always an exuberant & enthusiastic biker, clad in leather biker-themed variations of his traditional multi-hued accoutrements. As I've used several differen AI image-generation programs to recreate him, Tom's appearance varies quite noticeably from one image to another, but this is perfectly in-keeping anyway with a proteam nature spirit, a primordial being as old as the cosmos itself.
Moreover, I plan to follow up this present gallery with two additional ones, dealing respectively with Tom's long-overlooked twin brother Tim Bombadil, and their roguish, roisterous, rabble-rousing rebel biker cousin Dom Bumblebee - characters who do not appear in Tolkien's works but perfectly complement Tom's presence in my Bikerverse equivalent. So look out for them soon!
More of my AI-created biker images next time, including some new LOTR/biker crossover galleries coming soon!
Plus:
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uploaded by me on this blog. NB - all of the images included in this
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by me, RebelBikerDude, using the AI image-generation programs Dream Lab,
Adobe Firefly, Grok & Magic Studio, plus Grok Imagine with the video
clips,
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so they are not real images and they do not
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