Faramir's armour...... vs Boromir's

[MatthewM]

Originally Posted by calandil

he cannot walk around in the woods wearing nice shiny armor

LOL the simplest responses are always the funniest.

And indeed this is so. That, and given the fact we never have a description of Boromir's actual armour at Gondor, it's safe to say PJ just took what he thought Gondorian armour to look like and put it on Boromir in the Osgiliath scene. There's no real proof to why he made the suits of armour different.