krontekag
2009-05-21 22:08:55
IIRC – Bombadil was an Ainu that had gone native in Middle-Earth. I don’t think he was a full-on Vala.
But the point is it was not his immense power that enabled him to ignore the ring – it was the fact that he had utterly dissociated himself from the practice of power. He was, as LotM mentioned regarding the hobbits, a true “son of the soil”, quite uninterested in the conflicts of the world.
