This isn't on the Boromir part, but I thought PJ could have shown Theoden's death scene, better, with the whole weather bit and all.
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The Battle of Pelennor Fields
"Farewell master Holybytla" he said. "My body is broken. I go to my fathers. And even in their might company I shall not now be ashamed. I felled the black serpent. A grim morn, and a glad day, and a golden sunset!"
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Land of Shadow
Light was growing behind them. Slowly it crept towards the North. There was a battle far above in the high spaces of the air. The billowing clouds of Mordor were being driven back, their edges tattering as a wind out of the living world came up and swept the fumes and smokes towards the dark land of their home. Under the lifting skirts of the dreary canopy dim light leaked into Mordor like pale morning through the grimed window of a prison.
"Look at it Mr. Frodo!" said Sam. "Look at it! The wind's changed. Something's happening. He's not having it all his own way. His darkness is breaking up out in the world there. I wish I could see what is going on!"
It was the morning of the fifteenth of March, and over the Vale of Anduin the sun was rising above the eastern shadow, and the south-west wind was blowing. Theoden lay dying on the Pelennor fields.
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I've always had this great mental picture of the scene where Theoden dies, and the sun comes poking out, "breaking the dark clouds of Mordor." I haven't seen ROTK in a while, so I will have to see how they do that scene, because I think it's wonderful imagery. Anyway, plus, it sort of goes along with the Boromir incident. So, I don't mind it being a sunny day, as clearly, when Theoden dies the sun pokes out, eventhought it's his "death," it could symbolize a "glorious death," if you want to put it that way.