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Originally Posted by _00_deathscar
I was under the impression that Tolkien didn't think of Boromir as a 'heroic' figure, hence the evil attached to him in the books. It wasn't underdevelopment, it was intentional.
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I never intended to suggest that Boromir was entirely a hero...Just that the movie helped me to understand that he wasn't really a "bad guy", but human, and thus capable of falling under the influence of evil...or of doing acts of great good, like dying in defence of Merry and Pippin. I believe Tolkien thought of him the way I do: a man in shades of grey, not purely black or white, and I certainly can't deny that there was a lot of evil attached to him in the book, but there was also good, if we care to unearth it....it's just that in the books, he's competing with a lot of other elements for the reader's attention, and thus it's easier to dismiss him as evil rather than just flawed. In the movie, his character spends more time in focus, where it's easier to get to know him.