[Atariel]

How can it be that the second most level-headed man (after, of course, Aragorn) in the entire book, turns out evil in the film? Well, not purely evil, but it's peeping through. He DID say that he would never take Isildurs Bane, and then reverberated it when Sam blurted out what Isildur's Bane was. He DIDN'T take them to Osgiliath, and he certainly wouldn't have sent the hobbits to his altogether nasty father. Are we talking about the same Faramir that Beregond burst into tears and ran away from Pippin over? And the same Faramir that is so kind to Eowyn, even before she starts to love him back? And the same Faramir that didn't get stroppy with his father, even when he said 'Would that Faramir had gone in his stead'? Okay, so that was to Gandalf, but he said something like that to Faramir. It just doesn't work. <P>But i was very, very shocked at how much he looked like Boromir. Is it Denethor that they say 'reminded him more of Aragorn than of Boromir'? Oh, well.