Faramir and the Ring
This is not a movie question, though I will make reference to the LoTR movies. In the movie appendices to The Two Towers, one of the writers states that she thought Faramir's 'easy' refusal of the Ring in the books rather stripped some of the reader's view of the Ring's power to corrupt. The reader would cease to view the Ring as quite as powerful as it was since Faramir could refuse it so thoroughly, saying he wouldn't even pick it up if he saw it by the roadside. In my opinion, Faramir's total refusal of it demonstrated his nobility and purity of heart, not the Ring's lack of power. What do you think?
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Then came there from the south of the city the people of the Fountain, and Ecthelion was their lord, and silver and diamonds were their delight; and swords very long and bright and pale did they wield . . .
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