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A character in The Lord of the Rings, described as "The oldest and fatherless". Always use in conjunction with the [tolkiens-legendarium] tag.

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Who's older: Treebeard or Tom Bombadil?

From the Wikipedia article about Tom Bombadil: Treebeard calls himself the eldest living being of Middle-earth and says that he was there before anyone else. However, Tolkien remarked in another cont …
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