Tom Bombadil’s Song: How Love Transforms Forests into Gardens

There’s only one difference between a forest and a Garden — the absence or presence of the Master.

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The history of mankind started in the Garden, an earthly Paradise (a “walled enclosure” in Old Persian). Within that enchanted circle, everything thrived — plants, trees, birds of air, beasts of the field, and humans. Outside of that enclosure, there was chaos — a wild forest full of untamed creatures.

When Adam and Eve were evicted from th…