Eldest, that's what Tom Bombadil is.
Edit: In Magic The Gathering, he's listed as a god.
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He's old, very old
I always thought tom is the embodiment of nature itself. Basically if nature was a man.
Tom Bombadil was basically JRR Tolkien's id. 
Yes.
My opinion: mostly obnoxious and good he was left out of the movie.
When I read about him, the first thing that came to mind is the concept of the "original man" from Manichaeism. However, the Lord of the Rings, being a trilogy that owes itself to Catholicism, would rule anything relating to Manichaeism out as a correct interpretation.
The most boring part of the bookβ¦in my opinion.
That's not Tom. That's the forest
Yeah, thatβs fair.