Só parando para lembrar que, embora sendo nome galês, e , portanto, podendo indicar que o Bombadil do conto envolvendo o Bonhedig, originalmente e provavelmente, não fazia parte da tessitura da Terra Média,
Tolkien usou uma pletora de nomes foneticamente galeses na mitologia do Silmarillion(Morwen, Avalónnë, Broceliand, versão original de Beleriand e Gwendeling, nome original de Melian que tb é céltico, etc, etc) e até no SdA(Arwen, Araw...) tb, e que o próprio nome do Tom Bombadil em sindarin no SdA, Iarwain Ben Adar, é passível de leitura em galês, como a Leslie Jones*
comentou.
* citada pelo Neoghoster foi ela quem apontou pela primeira vez entre os estudisosos do Legendarium o débito céltico de Tolkien no Tom Bombadil com todas as letras e pingos nos is..
Iarwain ben Adar que em élfico é "Velho e sem Pai", em galês pode ser lido como "nascido( semente) de galinha, e/ou capitão dos pássaros", o que o conectaria com Taliesin "fronte estrelada", o bardo da mitologia céltica e, talvez, com Radagast).
Ela tb comparou o poema de Taliesin incluído na coletânea do Mabinogion onde Taliesin fala de coisas similares com aquelas das quais Bombadil se gaba de ter testemunhado, de ser antiquíssimo na Terra-Média , de "ter testemunhado a queda de Lúcifer" ( me ocorre agora é JUSTAMENTE a primeira coisa que o Vingador Fantasma em Livros da Magia do Gaiman levou o Tim Hunter pra ver...huuummmm
) assim como Bombadil diz que estava na Terra-Média antes do Senhor das Trevas "vir de Fora".
Num tópico "censurado" e deletado do LotrPlaza ( com a participação minha, diga-se, loooonga história...
) , Galin, um dos postadores, citou o livro da Leslie Jones botando a frase abaixo:
And I am really only wondering because of a theory I just read on the web that suggests Bombadil's Elvish name -- Iarwain Ben-adar -- can be given a meaning in Welsh: either 'Chicken-child' or 'henseed head-of-birds', which leads to an attempted connection to Taliesin -- given that Taliesin at one point changed into a grain and was eaten by a chicken (of sorts!), and was born again.
A informação que ele postou na LotrPlaza foi obtida
desse post aqui ó que, por sua vez, transcreve/parafraseia conteúdo do livro da Leslie Jones.
From this story, then, Taliesin is both chicken-feed and chicken born, evoking similarities to the etymology of Tom’s name. He is also a singer, and as is seen later in the story, he has a seemingly magical command of language such that the words he speaks actually have power over reality itself. Hence, it is possible for him “to have sung a song at that moment that resulted in the opening of the fetters from around his [Elphin’s] feet.” [Ford, The Mabinogi]. Remarkably, Tom has the same power over language, as evidenced when Frodo and Sam appeal to him for help with Old Man Willow and he responds by saying “That can soon be mended. I know the tune for him. Old grey Willow-man! I’ll freeze his marrow cold, if he don’t behave himself. I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away. Old Man Willow!” (Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings). Sure enough, Tom trots off and, through song, releases the imprisoned Merry and Pippin from the grips of Old Man Willow. A similar scene of song releasing bonds, of song and language literally having power over reality, connects both Tom and Taliesin beyond the already remarkable similarities of chicken-feed and chicken-born.
A final point of similarity between Tom and Taliesin can be seen in Tom’s boast that “Tom was here before the river and the trees… when the Elves passed westward, Tom was here already, before the seas were bent. He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless – before the Dark Lord came from Outside” [Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings] when it is compared with Taliesin’s insistence that
I was with my lord
in the heavens
When Lucifer fell
into the depths of hell;
I carried a banner
before Alexander;
I know the stars’ names
From the North to the South… [Ford, The Mabinogi]
Both boasts revolve around a claim to eternal knowledge – both characters insist they are as old (or older) than existence itself. Both refer to stars and fallen lords (Lucifer or The Dark Lord). Both boasts can be seen as a final strand connecting these two chicken-born heroes...
Isso significa que, se o nome do Bonhedig é céltico, não quer, necessariamente, dizer que ele não poderia ser incorporado à mitologia da Terra-Média.
A editora britânica HarperCollins acaba de publicar uma edição ampliada de As Aventuras de Tom Bombadil com material inédito escrito pelo Professor J. R. R. Tolkien.
