>>Bombadil just is. Like the Celtic elves I grew up with, it wasn't that they were amoral, so much as you being so far outside their experience that you could count on nothing.<< That's it exactly.

>>I grew up with ToS and it hurt my heart to see it turned into a frat party.<< That's also it exactly. I know no-one is at their best between the ages of 18 and 21 but I don't need to see it.