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Nogrod · 11-22-2008, 05:50 PM

A hard choice indeed.

But to go against all odds I'm voting

++ Boromir

for purely personal reasons which are not that Sean Bean is "soo charismatic in the movie" or that Beren is the less known of them.

To me Boromir has a special place in my mind that goes to my history of reading in general. I mean, first when I read the LotR like 10 years old or something I just thought: "Yeah, a great hero but so bad". But slowly I started thinking that there was something in that verdict that was not right. That even if the narrator of the story was painting him as a person who was weak (had not the guts to deny the temptations of the evil promises for glory) and was lured by the ring into madness because of his pride, I was starting to look at it from a different angle.

So the narrator was not right! Looking at his history and motivations showed he was the most sensible person around when the fellowship broke. All those omens and fatalisms - and the thought of risking everything with a the weakest card was the madness, not Boromir.

He was right then... only that the author had decided to make the world where he lived different in a way that because of Tolkien's ideals the impossible became possible... But that really opened my eyes with literature. The authors pull the strings in more ways we readers would like to concentrate on.

And therefore my vote for Boromir, the one who's destiny got me thinking about the status of the author when I was a teenager.

11-22-2008, 05:50 PM	#11
Nogrod Flame of the Ainulindalë Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Wearing rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves in a field behaving as the wind behaves Posts: 9,308	A hard choice indeed. But to go against all odds I'm voting ++ Boromir for purely personal reasons which are not that Sean Bean is "soo charismatic in the movie" or that Beren is the less known of them. To me Boromir has a special place in my mind that goes to my history of reading in general. I mean, first when I read the LotR like 10 years old or something I just thought: "Yeah, a great hero but so bad". But slowly I started thinking that there was something in that verdict that was not right. That even if the narrator of the story was painting him as a person who was weak (had not the guts to deny the temptations of the evil promises for glory) and was lured by the ring into madness because of his pride, I was starting to look at it from a different angle. So the narrator was not right! Looking at his history and motivations showed he was the most sensible person around when the fellowship broke. All those omens and fatalisms - and the thought of risking everything with a the weakest card was the madness, not Boromir. He was right then... only that the author had decided to make the world where he lived different in a way that because of Tolkien's ideals the impossible became possible... But that really opened my eyes with literature. The authors pull the strings in more ways we readers would like to concentrate on. And therefore my vote for Boromir, the one who's destiny got me thinking about the status of the author when I was a teenager. __________________ Upon the hearth the fire is red Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet...