Faramir and the Ring - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Firefoot · 01-05-2004, 06:50 PM

I don't think that having Faramir refuse the Ring in the book was showing a lack of power by the Ring. That was always something I liked about Faramir - that he was very noble and as Sam said "You showed your quality - the very highest." or something like that. I might have mixed up the book and movie quote for that and if that was the movie quote there was something like that in the book. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I have to say I was SO MAD when they had Faramir try to take the Ring to Minas Tirith but after seeing the TTT EE I understood where they were coming from. They were trying to show that Faramir wanted approval and love from Denethor, etc.

I would have to agree with Kalimac that it was sort of like with Aragorn. It wasn't necessarily *easy* for Faramir to not take the Ring and just because he let Frodo go doesn't mean he wasn't tempted - he almost had to be; such was the power of the ring.

01-05-2004, 06:50 PM	#8
Firefoot Illusionary Holbytla Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 7,547	I don't think that having Faramir refuse the Ring in the book was showing a lack of power by the Ring. That was always something I liked about Faramir - that he was very noble and as Sam said "You showed your quality - the very highest." or something like that. I might have mixed up the book and movie quote for that and if that was the movie quote there was something like that in the book. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I have to say I was SO MAD when they had Faramir try to take the Ring to Minas Tirith but after seeing the TTT EE I understood where they were coming from. They were trying to show that Faramir wanted approval and love from Denethor, etc. I would have to agree with Kalimac that it was sort of like with Aragorn. It wasn't necessarily easy for Faramir to not take the Ring and just because he let Frodo go doesn't mean he wasn't tempted - he almost had to be; such was the power of the ring.