Tim Bombadil

[Tim Bombadil @TK_757]

@_BrunoMilano Straight out of the book of Tyson. Body hook switch body hook easily top 3 combo all time.

[WellBuiltStyle @WellBuiltStyle]

There is real genius behind those that can identify the boring basics in any domain, be it health/fitness, finance, relationships, business etc. and then execute them unflinchingly. Day after day. Like a metronome.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Tom Bombadil is the most mysterious character in The Lord of the Rings.

He's the oldest being in Middle-earth and completely immune to the Ring's power — but why?

Bombadil is the key to the underlying ethics of the entire story, and to resisting evil yourself...

Tom Bombadil is an enigmatic, merry hermit of the countryside, known as "oldest and fatherless" by the Elves. He is truly ancient, and claims he was "here before the river and the trees." He's so confounding that Peter Jackson left him out of the films entirely.

This is understandable, since he's unimportant to the development of the plot. Tolkien, however, saw fit to include him anyway, because Tom reveals a lot about the underlying ethics of Middle-earth, and how to shield yourself from evil.

The hobbits meet Bombadil early on in their quest, before they reach Bree and the Prancing Pony Inn. He rescues Merry and Pippin from Old Man Willow, and invites the hobbits to stay at his house in the Old Forest.

There, the hobbits realize something strange about him: the Ring has no power over Bombadil whatsoever.

When he wears it, he remains visible. He treats it as a plaything, making it disappear with a magic trick. Indeed, at the Council of Elrond, Gandalf rejects the idea of giving the Ring to Tom, for he would likely misplace it or forget about it entirely.

So just who is he, exactly?

When Frodo asks this very question to Tom's wife Goldberry, she simply responds "He is." It's a cryptic answer that echoes God's famous answer to Moses in the Book of Exodus: "I am who I am."

Thus, many theorize that Bombadil is God, some kind of angelic being, or even the spirit of the Music of the Ainur (due to the fact that he is constantly singing). But Tolkien's letters reveal something considerably more interesting…

In April 1954, Tolkien wrote:

"The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship… but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control.But if you have, as it were, taken a 'vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself… then the questions of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless…"

So, Bombadil is a representation of what it means to take pure delight in the world around you — to experience people and things simply as they are, without any thought for what they could be or how you could use them. And this is why the Ring has no power over him.

To Bombadil, the One Ring is simply a ring, and the possibilities of what can be achieved through its power are of no importance. He is able to resist its evil precisely because he is entirely content with the world around him.

At the end of the story, having accomplished what he set out to do in Middle-earth, Gandalf pays Tom a visit before returning to the Undying Lands:

"I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time."

If Bombadil is the epitome of simply enjoying life and being, Gandalf is the epitome of doing. He guides the hobbits, fights the Balrog, and runs up and down Middle-earth to help destroy the One Ring.

But now that he's finally liberated from doing, he immediately heads to Bombadil's. He does so with a sense of relief, as if he's at last able to access a purer and higher mode of being — a sort of innocence that cannot be fully experienced by those consumed by doing.

Of course, by this Tolkien doesn't disparage the value of action. The entirety of LOTR displays the importance of rising up against evil, even in the face of all odds. But with the inclusion of Bombadil, he does remind readers that fighting isn't all there is.

Bombadil reminds us that while it's important to strive and *do*, it is just as important to occasionally step back and *be*. Indeed, your ability to do so plays a crucial role in helping you resist the allure of evil…

Read the full piece here:

https://t.co/aqK2daehIL

The unsung hero of The Lord of the Rings...

[Tim Bombadil @TK_757]

@Lytherian Or a fireman. 👨‍🚒

[Tim Bombadil @TK_757]

@themopinomicon

[Tim Bombadil @TK_757]

@lowmegatron Same energy

[BowTiedYukon @BowTiedYukon]

22 year old fitness influencers tell you that you need 8 hours of sleep, stretching followed by a good warm up, train scientifically, the sauna, a cold plunge and no microplastics

Most fathers are running on 5 hours of sleep, 400mg of caffeine, a quick warm up, crush a lift, meat & potatoes & disciple to get through the day

The world was built by men who showed up tired, not by men waiting for perfect conditions

[Tim Bombadil @TK_757]

@homegymcoop Most of them use a personal trainer as well. Many of my former strength and conditioning colleagues who went the NFL route were disappointed with the experience of only training the practice squad sporadically

[Tim Bombadil @TK_757]

@Footballtweet I’d be giving them hella orange juice, collagen, glycine and vitamin E and they would be feeling superhuman compared to their higher latitude homeland

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🇳🇴☀️ Norway's training session as they try to become acclimatised to the sun in America.

[LUIS @luisomor]

By just doing pullups and dips naked in the sun you will get a more aesthetic physique than 99% of science-based gymbros

[Sport Drink @sportdrink]

It's happening

[Tim Bombadil @TK_757]

@lmkifiwin Just cause they test Olympians doesn’t mean those Olympic world records aren’t obtained with steroids. It’s a bigger pool of elite athletes whom many take ergonenics leading up to their work records but have “cycled” off.

[Tim Bombadil @TK_757]

@D_R_Ball @phemmyteah147 Never claimed that. I was simply displaying a fact that an average guy with no substances can surpass 3, and I have seen many athletes who are closer to 4 and 5 with no enhancing substances. Thanks for your opinion though!

[Tim Bombadil @TK_757]

@LoganPaul Modern day version of: train hard, say your prayers, and eat your vitamins

[Tim Bombadil @TK_757]

@JoshRainerGold I will never not be able to see him as a human beaver now. Thank you.

[Yūgen 幽玄 @yugenmarkos]

Vücut geliştirme dünyası insanları tek bir büyüme modeline mahkum etti: Sarkoplazmik hipertrofi. Yani yüksek tekrarlarla kası laktik aside boğup içini sıvı, ödem ve glikojenle doldurarak geçici olarak şişirmek. Bu kaslar içi su dolu bir balona benzer; idmanı bıraktığınız an hızla sönerler. Bizim hedefimiz ise miyofibriler hipertrofidir; yani kasılıp gevşeyen protein liflerinin kendisini kalınlaştırmak. Ağır yükler, çok düşük tekrarlar, patlayıcı hız ve tam toparlanma ile inşa edilen kaslar mermer gibidir. Yoğun, sert ve kalıcıdır. Dinlenirken bile kıyafetlerinizin altından o mermer sertliğini ve yoğunluğunu belli eder.

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Geleneksel vücut geliştiriciler, kaslarındaki o yanma (asidoz) hissini kutsal bir kase gibi görürler. Oysa kası aside boğarak pumplandırmak, kas liflerinin kendisini kalınlaştırmak yerine hücresel düzeyde hasara ve su toplanmasına yol açar. Gerçek ve kalıcı kas kütlesi, kası çürütmekle değil; sinir sistemini daha ağır yükleri daha yüksek bir hızla ateşlemeye zorlamakla inşa edilir. Kaslarınızı asitle boğmayı bırakın.

[Tim Bombadil @TK_757]

@5HTskeptic Lack of collagen and amino acids