Goldberry is a character from the works of the author J. She first appeared in print in a poem, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil , where she appears as the wife of Tom Bombadil. Also known as the "River-woman's daughter", she is described as a beautiful, youthful woman with golden hair.
She is best known from her appearance as a supporting character in Tolkien's high fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings , first published in and Like her husband, Goldberry's role and origins are enigmatic and have been debated by scholars. On her possible origins, scholars have compared her with a character in George MacDonald 's fairy tale The Golden Key , and with the eponymous character in the late-medieval lyric poem The Maid of the Moor.
Her characterisation has been described as a mixture of the domestic and the supernatural, connected in some way with the river Withywindle in the Old Forest of Middle-earth.
Some have suggested that she may be a divine being in Tolkien's mythology; others, that she recalls the biblical Eve , a token of the unfallen creation; and an embodiment of joy, serving with Tom Bombadil as a model of the Catholic sacrament of marriage.
Both Bombadil and Goldberry were omitted from Peter Jackson's film trilogy ; they were, however, included in the Russian television play Khraniteli and the second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
