Thread: What is your heroic ideal?
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Old 04-19-2010, 12:53 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by mormegil View Post
I am not a fan of Boromir so help me understand how he achieved redemption? He fought Uruks at the end. Who wouldn't? I don't see this as redemption I see it as doing what any would do to try and preserve their own life.
Now now now! He tried to redeem himself, that was his reason to go and fight the Uruks - he came to save Merry and Pippin, since he could not turn back the clock and save Frodo anymore. He was not forced to fight, he could have slipped away, drowned in his self-pity or returned to Gondor on foot and pretended that nothing has ever happened, but he decided to go and fight to save the Hobbits. He did not succeed, but he was ready to - and he eventually did - lay down his life.
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