What Happened to Gallant Captain Faramir? - Awesome Article

[Farael]

I don't know.. while it's a very well written article, it reminds me of the biggest problem I had reading Hamlet.... half of the things the teacher said that the text meant just weren't there!

Of course, if you spend a couple hundred years analyzing a play, you are bound to find some things the author never meant to put in...

And I think it's more of the same here. While it brings up some good points, I'm not sure whoever wrote the screenplay for LoTR had the 'true' (as in book) Faramir in mind and gauged his reactions with regards to what he would have done... the fact that the movie Frodo and Sam behaved in a way that might have made the 'true' Faramir hesitate and act as he did in the movie does not mean that he would have. As a matter of fact, I'd like to think he would have still acted lordly and smooth rather than hesitantly and kinda cheap.