Denethor's plunge

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Originally Posted by alatar

Those of you who read the books after seeing the movies: What did you think when you read that Denethor didn't take the plunge? Were you disappointed, or did you find the 'real' story more interesting?

I can't see a reason for having Denethor 'burning to fly,' and could think of better ways, filmatically, for him to die. Was it simply to get rid of another place for a memorial ("This black ring on the floor are the remains of Denethor II...please watch your step.")?

PJ does seem to have a thing for persons falling...cough...Gollum, Aragorn, Saruman...cough

Just which Valar IS the Lord of Gravity?

Well after I read this post I was really ****ed at PJ for putting the falling sequence in there. But I think that the way Denethor dies in the book is more heroic in a way because he was not afraid to die and in the movie he just kind of started burning and was so incredibly scared that he ran and fell of the seventh level of Minis Tirith.