Wisely cut by Jackson from the "Rings" movies, Bombadil is the Johnny Appleseed of Middle Earth — an idealized, rustic man who is also one of Tolkien's most irritating characters.
In Colombia, he was a remarkable figure: a "rustic man with the profile of an eagle," as Gabriel García Márquez described him, who left his episcopal residence at night to feed slum children, mediated between guerrillas and death squads and reputedly made his way to Pablo Escobar's house disguised as a milkman to demand that the drug kingpin confess his sins.
The universe that all these various people inhabit is very different from the wholesome rustic world of Robin Page and One Man and His Dog.
"I'm one of those rustic mountain men," Mr. Parsons said.
Like its city counterpart, Ali Baba, at 4 Welwyn Road (516-487-1070), specializes in rustic, working-man's fare rather than gourmet delicacies.
His McLane is a well-dressed man with rustic pride and the strict moral principles of someone who has had few opportunities to behave badly.
She tends two Jersey cows and 23 goats, "counting papa," to produce a variety of hard and soft cheeses, including Cheshire, a type of cheddar which Steve Jenkins said is "among the most satisfying, simple, hearty and rustic cheeses known to man".
Via San Gregorio Armeno, home of the presepe (nativity-scene) craftsmen, twinkles with rustic tableaux teeming with wise men, shepherds, hams.
Inspired, or perhaps provoked, by the fashion for novels set in remote rustic villages about sensitive young men with names like "Micah", she set about demolishing a piece of treasured literary real estate whose origins can be traced to the late-Victorian novels of Thomas Hardy (No 29 in this series).
The news anchors projected a man with outdated rustic ideas, including flogging as a cure for alcoholism and chopping off limbs as a punishment for corruption, as the new hero of the middle class.
