MatthewM
To add to what Formendacil and Boromir88 say above -
It always amazes me how different people can have different viewpoints of characters that are almost 100% opposite to each other - I see it again and again in looking at different threads on this site. It's probably what makes this place so interesting.
I'd just like to take you up on one area of your post to explain my point above - you said re Boromir:
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I do not get that from PJ's adaption. Instead, we see a man with childish grudges who gets upset when he doesn't always get his way
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I see EXACTLY this when I think of book Boromir. It took me a few reads to get to this point - I remember a few years back I was re reading LOTR for the umpteenth time and we were discussing the character of Boromir on this site so I concentrated on him as I read from the Council to the Breaking of the Fellowship. I found Boromir a petulant, childish figure quite a number of times in the way he acted.
I'll try to fish out the Thread the discussion was on - and post a link here. - you might enjoy it.
Here's one of them:
http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthr...ish#post381783
and
http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthr...ish#post319074