Все знают, что она - дочь Реки, речной дух.
HoME-6 THE RETURN OF THE SHADOW, p.115 и далее.
Рэйтлифф пишет в "Истории Хоббита", стр. 59 -
Goldberry and Bombadil; the one a nymph, the other a genius loci
Драут, стр. 3 - Goldberry (supposedly a wraith), стр. 245 - She is a woodland goddess
Кристина Скалл, наше всё, стр. 124:
Tolkien also wrote a poem about Tom Bombadil, published in the Oxford Magazine for 15 February 1934:
Old Tom Bombadil
was a merry fellow,
bright blue his jacket was,
and his boots were yellow.
He lived down under Hill;
and a peacock's feather
nodded in his old hat,
tossing in the weather.
Old Tom Bombadil walked about the meadows gathering the buttercups, a-chasing of the shadows, tickling the bumblebees a-buzzing in the flowers, sitting by the waterside for hours upon hours.
There his beard dangled long down into the water:
up came Goldberry, the Riverwomans daughter;
Смотрите также -
Tom Bombadil and The Lord of the Rings by Christina Scull
в Толкиниане, в подразделе Collections в сборнике Шиппи "J. R. R. Tolkien`s Shorter Fiction".
Мне лично кажется, что Голдберри появилась у Профессора вместе с Томом, как отклик/воспоминание о древнегреческом, о нимфах и титанах, о Смите ...
