hat whatever limited knowledge Galdor based his comments on was common among the wise and learned Elves at the Council. More specifically, Elrond is clearly reasonably familiar with Bombadil and Gandalf seems to know quite a bit about his nature and abilities, but neither of them objects.
             If Frodo changed his question to what is Tom Bombadil, then the truer sense of Tom could be gleaned. Tolkien wrote in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter, "There is no 'embodiment' of the Creator anywhere in this story or mythology"(191-92). Tolkien went on to also say, "The One does not physically inhabit any part of Ea."(298) As if that weren't enough, Tolkien describes Tom's interests and motives in many places, but the motives of the all-powerful Creator probably could not even be expressed in words. All this makes the Eru theory probably the
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