Returning to the topic, though, who sent the dream and why Boro went instead of his brother.
When the dream was brought to the counsil of Gondor, Denethor agreed to send one of his sons - not servants - to find out what's going on. He didn't sneer at Faramir's elvishness, or whatever it's called, when Boro said that he dreamt it too. This shows that Denethor accepted the dream to be true. It is very hard to make Denethor head any advise but his own, so this ust be one of the rare cases when he listened to someone else.
Once Denny accepted the dream, Boro wanted to go himself, because for the reasons above he understood it to be a serious matter. It does seem more like Boro to remain and fight and send Faramir, but I think it was his pride and his mistakened judgement that Gondor is the best and he's the best in Gondor that pushed him to take the task that he didn't much care for.
Faramir usually gave in to Boro, and didn't try to compete against him. Even if he said soething against Boro's decision, it was in his nature to just accept Boro as the best.
The dream was sent by an anonymus person, and probably fate. But I think that in LotR fate hardy does anything by accident. I think that this time fate (in the face of Eru, who planned out all the events of the world up to the very end) chose Galadriel to act through. Galadriel has her "magical" mirror, through which she can see the future. She also has a gift of telepathy, which means that can speak using just her thought, not her actual voice. I think that Fate, or Eru made her want to find out a little bit about the future. Galadriel decided that she is the one who is destined to push one of Denethor's sons to come to Rivendell, so she sent the dream and spoke in it. She is wise enough not to blurt out everything, which would turn Denny against the mission of destroying the Ring, because he would want the Ring hinself. Instead, she sort of intrigued Boro and Farry, so that one of them would carry out the fate...
Maybe fate chose Boro because he would need to go through the stage of a desparate desire for the Ring anyways, and it does less damage to the mission, to Gondor, and to many other people when Boro goes through it near Rauros. Imagie what would have happened if Farry went instead:
1) There would be 2 Aragorns in the Fellowship. Faramir is very much like Aragorn, except that he is more earthly; he's closer to regular people. The Fellowship is formed in such a way that no 2 members are too much alike, even Merry and Pippin. Farry would disbalnce the structure.
2)Faramir would probably help Frodo AT LEAST up to the Ithilien. That would prevent Frodo from meeting Gollum at the right time, and he's the one who actually destroys the Ring, even if accidentally. Moreover, this means that Frodo would have met Boromir near Henneth Annun, and his view of Frodo's story would be much different from Farry's. If Farry would have been with Frodo when they would've met Boro, it would turn out worse, because of their relationship. Farry would tell Boro way more than Frodo would, and he would follow Boro's instructions, like he normally does.
Wow! What a speech! I always had trouble with getting to the point quickly! Sorry everyone who had to read through this babbling.
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