Ah, Boromir! I have such a complicated relationship with him! When I first saw FotR, he was introduced to me as 'a guy who tries to steal the ring and dies, don't bother about him'. And I was just like "Okay!".
Oooh, I have just the opposite relationship, in some ways! When I read the books, I despised Boromir--he's the only person who really actively tries to take the Ring, and so I always kind of saw him as weak and evil. I'd never read such a long, complicated book at that age, so I never really comprehended how he was related to Denethor and Faramir--I knew he was a son and a brother, but I didn't understand what was being revealed about his character through seeing his father and his brother, if that makes sense. So the movie (even without that extended scene, which was amazing!) really brought home to me how much he loved Gondor and his father, and how desperately he wanted to save them, so I liked him SO much better...
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Date: 2014-02-06 07:57 am (UTC)Oooh, I have just the opposite relationship, in some ways! When I read the books, I despised Boromir--he's the only person who really actively tries to take the Ring, and so I always kind of saw him as weak and evil. I'd never read such a long, complicated book at that age, so I never really comprehended how he was related to Denethor and Faramir--I knew he was a son and a brother, but I didn't understand what was being revealed about his character through seeing his father and his brother, if that makes sense. So the movie (even without that extended scene, which was amazing!) really brought home to me how much he loved Gondor and his father, and how desperately he wanted to save them, so I liked him SO much better...