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The chapter title is rather ambiguous - did anyone think that it meant Boromir was going to Minas Tirith when first reading the book?
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Yes.
The first time I read LOTR my head was spinning after this chapter.
Frodo and Sam are off alone, Boromir gets killed, Merry and Pippin get captured (probably the thing I least expected), and Aragorn decides to chase after M & P.
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Maybe there is no right choice.
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That's exactly how I was feeling when I read this part.
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Then sitting in the high seat he looked out. But the sun seemed darkened, and the world dim and remote.
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Hmm... could Sauron have anything to do with this? Sauron had felt somebody who was either powerful or had a powerful object in their possession looking at him from the hill earlier in the day. Perhaps he was still giving Amon Hen (or the area around it) a bit of attention which caused Aragorn's sight on the hill to be darkened or cloaked.
And I agree with
Aldarion and his points regarding the funeral song and how it could have been made up on the spot.