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Lyta_Underhill · 07-22-2003, 10:48 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Go to my topic and vote anyway, if you want to.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Thanks, Estel! I just did! And I think that Saucepan Man has pinpointed my real problem with Faramir, and that is FRODO! It is really Frodo's awful behavior that makes Faramir so hard on him and so mistrustful, so why DOES Faramir let them go in the end? I suppose they are really tied up together, and I tend to get much more up in arms about the marring and defusing of Frodo's power and poise in the movie than of Faramir's. But in this instance, their intersection makes both of them wrong, even though Faramir does the right thing and lets Frodo go; it is less of a rational decision and more of a leap of faith. I think they've broken Frodo down much too quickly, so that others are forced to pluck faith out of the air, rather than in the determination "beyond all hope" that Frodo shows when he is on the home stretch to Mordor. I can perhaps rationalize it to be a sharing of this determination between Frodo and Faramir, but really I think I need to watch the movie again before I make any more judgements on either of them (I've only seen it once). Gee, who thought I'd get into the whole Frodo/Faramir can of worms again? <P>Cheers,<BR>Lyta

07-22-2003, 10:48 PM	#18
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Go to my topic and vote anyway, if you want to.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Thanks, Estel! I just did! And I think that Saucepan Man has pinpointed my real problem with Faramir, and that is FRODO! It is really Frodo's awful behavior that makes Faramir so hard on him and so mistrustful, so why DOES Faramir let them go in the end? I suppose they are really tied up together, and I tend to get much more up in arms about the marring and defusing of Frodo's power and poise in the movie than of Faramir's. But in this instance, their intersection makes both of them wrong, even though Faramir does the right thing and lets Frodo go; it is less of a rational decision and more of a leap of faith. I think they've broken Frodo down much too quickly, so that others are forced to pluck faith out of the air, rather than in the determination "beyond all hope" that Frodo shows when he is on the home stretch to Mordor. I can perhaps rationalize it to be a sharing of this determination between Frodo and Faramir, but really I think I need to watch the movie again before I make any more judgements on either of them (I've only seen it once). Gee, who thought I'd get into the whole Frodo/Faramir can of worms again? <P>Cheers,<BR>Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”