Boromir's horn

[dragoneyes]

In the fight scene, just before he dies, Boromir's horn is cloven in half but I have yet to pinpoint when it actually is. If there is already a topic on this, please direct me to it. Ta!

[Túroch]

I've noticed this discrepency too. From what I can tell the first shot of his broken horn is after the third arrow. All shots before it show the horn as whole.

[Burzdol]

I agree with Turoch on this one.<P>Burzdol

[Finwe]

It is possible that the actual cleaving of the horn will be shown in flashbacks when Pippin is telling Denethor how exactly Boromir died. I know that PJ is going to tell quite a bit about Boromir and Faramir in flashbacks, so he probably will include that little scene.

[HCIsland]

It's possible an orc sword caught the horn as well. Don't expect to see this. The horn was not something that was made a big deal of in the movie so a shot of it actually being broken was likely never made.<P>The cleaved horn being in at all was for fans of the book.<P>H.C.

[Shy Hobbit]

There is a picture of someone holding the cloven horn in RotK at councilofelrond. So I wouldn't give up all hope of it's details being left out.

[HCIsland]

There's a picture of what looks like Faramir holding the horn. I think that will be for the special edition Two Towers. I'm just saying, don't expect to see a shot of how it got split in two. It really isn't particularly relevant.<P>H.C.

[Finwe]

That's true. And PJ has proved himself to be a stickler for only relevant things. Look at all the "irrelevant" characters that he's cut. He even cut the El-twins! He probably isn't going to bother about a "minor" scene like that.

[Shy Hobbit]

Well, I thought throwing Aragorn over a cliff was irrelevant but that's another thread... ok anyways *ahem* since there is a scene of someone holding the horn, there will be something said of it, but not necesarily how it was split. That was my original point, I should have made myself more clear. But I too have wondered why they included showing the split horn but not exactly how it was done.

[HCIsland]

All I'm saying is how the horn got split is not particularly relevant. Tolkien didn't talk about it either. It got split in battle, that's enough.<P>H.C.

[Scott]

Think of the audiences that Jackson had to produce the movies for. Do you think that the majority of people would've enjoyed a close-up on his horn being smashed, or some orc heads rolling about more?<BR>Even though I'm a huge fan of the books, I would still rather see orc heads flying more than horn shards.<BR>~Scott

[sassyfriend]

I think it happend after the 2nd arrow hit him but i'm not sure. It also looked like he got wacked in the stomache with a sword too.