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08-18-2005, 08:59 PM | #1 |
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Why didn't he just take it?
We've all thought about how awful they turned Faramir in the TT...and how he fell under that power of the Ring. How is it, then, that he didn't take it? He did, as he said, have a whole host of men at his call, and Frodo and Sam were, after all, only two Halflings. Why bother with two pieces of baggage and take them to his father when he could just take the Ring and carry it himself? Even if he wanted to take the hobbits, why trust them to carry it the entire way? When someone else has the thing that you want, you're more likely to loose it than if you had it yourself.
Any thoughts on the matter? And...I neglected to look to see if it'd been brought up before and it really would be just my luck to find out that this has been discussed. - - Folwren
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08-18-2005, 09:17 PM | #2 |
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He probably did not take the Ring because he knew what fate befell his brother and maybe he thought that the same thing could have happened to him if he succumbed to the will of the Ring.
As for the part about not letting Frodo carry the Ring to Minas Tirith, I believe he thought that since Frodo carried it all the way from the Shire, he wouldn't loose it. And even if Frodo did loose the Ring, they would probably end up finding it again because he had the Ring in his possession for a long time and the lure of the Ring would be to great for him to endure, just like Gollum.
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08-19-2005, 05:52 AM | #4 |
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Movie-Faramir had to take the Hobbits as prisoners anyway. He wouldn't kill them and he couldn't leave them in Ithilien. Leaving the Ring in the hand of Frodo seemed safe enough.
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08-19-2005, 09:26 AM | #5 |
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SaucePanMan is right "Evil faramir" was onlt doing what he thought was best
and think about it if you flipped out over this change what would you have done if Faramir had actually taken it
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But Saucepan Man's point is very good. That's made the most sense so far.
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08-31-2005, 04:30 PM | #8 |
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I agree that the whole Faramir-taking-the-ring thing would definitely have forced the entire plotline to be rewritten from halfway through TTT all the way to the end of ROTK. No way would Phillipa Boyens have agreed to do that, or PJ have consented to allow it.
But my real point in posting is that I think Movie!Faramir was just shocked and whipped when Sam told him that Boromir tried to kill Frodo to get the Ring. I mean, honestly, if someone told me that my brother, my beloved brother and role model, had tried to kill somebody "after swearing an oath to protect him", I would stop in my tracks and rethink what I was doing. Faramir, in my opinion, realized just HOW powerful the Ring was, and possibly considered what the heck it would do to his dad, once he had his hands on it.
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