tom bombadil.......

ok, so on the way back from cincinnati this morning, we listened to nickel creek, a bluegrass trio produced my alison krauss............they are quite good, with fiddle, mandolin, and guitar...........anyway...they played a song about tom bombadil..................which may seem natural to those literati who have actually read the tolkein trilogy...............sadly, neither my spouse nor my daughter had read the books...and therefore had no idea about tom bombadil.......................i can recall...the first time i got wind that someone was filming the trilogy.................i looked online to see who was to play tom bombadil............i am still dismayed that this character was left out......................he and his lovely companion represent all that is good and earthy about this life we lead..............and peter jackson decided that he would rather spend hisd on-screen time on orcs and falling wizard flashbacks................ah well.................