What does this have to do with dominion? Well, bless my beard, it’s the same thing! In the Bible God doesn’t lay down His dominion when He rests on the seventh day; He enjoys what He has made. And Tom’s dominion and his rest amount to the same thing. Perhaps this seems unlikely, since we meet Tom at the beginning of the story, before things really get going. But I think that’s the genius of Tom, and Tolkien. He comes at the beginning because he gives us a glimpse of the ending—the happy ending.
