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Originally Posted by Galadriel55
I am starting to ramble so I will stop here, but I wonder what others think of the spared evildoer theme.
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There's actually one other "spared wrongdoer" example right here in this chapter: Frodo and Sam! Technically speaking, as we learned in the previous chapter, they are trespassers in Gondor and ought under the law to be brought to Denethor. Faramir passes judgement on them also, and by putting him under his protection "and under the shield of Gondor" (a fantastic line), he is creating another example of at least bending the law from a rigid application--imagine what Boromir would have done as Captain in Ithilien if he found Frodo, Sam, and Gollum wandering alone there!
(Mind you, if their places were reversed, it seems likely enough that Faramir would have explicitly been their guide post-Parth Galen, and had they come to Ithilien and met Boromir, it would have been quite a different encounter... but maybe not for the best in the end. Who would have guided Frodo over the Ephel Duáth? Would Boromir, either getting the truth from Faramir OR meeting secrecy from his brother, have let them continue on?)