Timeline for In the Fourth Age, what was the oldest creature left alive in Middle Earth?

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Jun 14, 2015 at 22:25	comment	added	Lexible		Well people say a lot of things. Tolkein himself said Bombadil was not Illúvatar, and in fact referred to Tom's provenance as a mystery... which leaves me feeling that it is just as wrong to claim he is not living as living (by your categorization). I also do not buy that the Valar and Maiar are not living... they're immortal, yes, but does not make them either unalive or undead.
Jun 14, 2015 at 21:36	comment	added	M. A. Golding		There were some people such as the Mouth of Sauron and Elves with "magical" powers who were exactly living beings, but other beings who had "magical" powers and skills were ainur spirits embodied in bodies and thus not exactly living beings. Tom Bombadil is often assumed to be an ainur and thus not exactly a living being. The Elves said he was there before any Elves awoke, he is much older than any Man, Dwarf, or Hobbit, so it is hard to classify him as just a living being. Some have even suggested that Tom was God Almighty, Eru himself, in disguise.
Jun 10, 2015 at 14:58	comment	added	Lexible		Where do you get the idea that Tom "is not exactly a living being?"
S Jun 4, 2015 at 9:22	history	edited	BMWurm	CC BY-SA 3.0	fixed spelling
S Jun 4, 2015 at 9:22	history	suggested	Mithical	CC BY-SA 3.0	fixed spelling
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Jun 4, 2015 at 4:47	history	answered	M. A. Golding	CC BY-SA 3.0