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Old 08-09-2002, 11:10 AM   #11
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Child - Never mistake the character for the writer!

So, could you say that Boromir was a convenient prop used by Tolkien, an artifice designed to bring out certain aspects of other characters.

He was a character never intended to be fully fleshed out and was discarded when he served his purposes.
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