Tumblr crosspost (6 May 2020)

[anghraine]

It’s kind of amazing how, in FOTR, Boromir:

• is introduced as some guy from the south
• is told that his people are decayed, weak, and racially impure
• hears unjust suspicions of their smaller ally
• is later described as one of two men, with the clarification that the other one, Aragorn, is ‘of the folk of Westernesse,’ as if Boromir isn’t
• has the Ring eating at him
• is remembered, by someone who only knew him during this period, as having a “kindly manner”

#i may be primarily a faramir-denethor fan but let no one think i don't respect boromir