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In praise of -beorn.

LIKE you, I'm immensely excited by the forthcoming film of The Hobbit.

But I'm also worried. A weakness of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films was the absence of Tom Bombadil. You know who I mean. He's the embodiment of a nature spirit, jolly, colourful, kind and indestructible.

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