So, Best and Worst Characters?

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Originally Posted by Captain of Despair

MY least favorite would have to be Denethor. I know it's been mentioned a thousand times, but I cannot get over how they ruined the character. Sure Denethor (in the book) had become somewhat maddened due to everything that had happened (Boromir dying, Faramir becoming ill, terrible visions in the palantir) but over all he was still a good man. In the movies he was portrayed as little more than a raving lunatic. But I digress.

I just re-read this section in the book and I did not find the book version all that flattering as to Denethor's character either, at least at the end. Many of his lines are taken verbatim from the book.

However, I do agree that the scene where he congratulates Boromir on his recapture of Osgiliath portrays Denethor in a bad, even nasty light, and that this is absent in the book.