Why didn't Denethor...

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What we easily forget her is that Boromir was the son most unlike his father, he showed clearly that he was quite different. Faramir was of the purest Numenorean line, just as Boromir, but the altter was it only in the blood, finding delight in the arrow for it's swiftness was not Numenorean, nor was the egoistic feats we see in Boromir, just as his ignoring of lore and wisdom. I think we see a slight and maybe unconscious notion of self criticism by Denethor, he is, outspoekenly in the UT and LotR, more like his scond son, still he wants the one unlike to him to be Steward? He realized that his rule had been a failure, the waning power of Gondor and so on, and he thought he knew that his kind of rulers' time was gone, that it was time for swords and strongwilled people, not consideration, council and wisdom.

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