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Lyta_Underhill · 06-08-2003, 11:34 PM

I agree with Sparks on characters: Pippin and Frodo are tops with me in the books! But the one character who would never have struck me if it hadn't been for the movies is Boromir. Sean Bean really humanized Boromir and gave me the capacity to forgive him. I have never looked at Boromir the same way since Sean B. gave him screen life. (It could also be because he's not hard to look at either!) ;=)<P>I think also that it is my focus on Pippin in my latest readings of LOTR that made me take a closer look at Boromir, for Pippin's choices later on are very much influenced by the Son of Gondor. Pippin's pledge to Denethor is in memory of Boromir the Brave, and Pippin does not treat it lightly. He has grown up by the time he reaches Minas Tirith, and he has a debt of honor to Boromir; I guess this time around, I've seen Boromir through Pippin's eyes, and he is much richer and more tragic than the braggart I had thought him when I read the books long ago.<P>Cheers!<BR>Lyta

06-08-2003, 11:34 PM	#23
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	I agree with Sparks on characters: Pippin and Frodo are tops with me in the books! But the one character who would never have struck me if it hadn't been for the movies is Boromir. Sean Bean really humanized Boromir and gave me the capacity to forgive him. I have never looked at Boromir the same way since Sean B. gave him screen life. (It could also be because he's not hard to look at either!) ;=)<P>I think also that it is my focus on Pippin in my latest readings of LOTR that made me take a closer look at Boromir, for Pippin's choices later on are very much influenced by the Son of Gondor. Pippin's pledge to Denethor is in memory of Boromir the Brave, and Pippin does not treat it lightly. He has grown up by the time he reaches Minas Tirith, and he has a debt of honor to Boromir; I guess this time around, I've seen Boromir through Pippin's eyes, and he is much richer and more tragic than the braggart I had thought him when I read the books long ago.<P>Cheers!<BR>Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”