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Tumblr crosspost (16 September 2020)
Boromir is a Dúnadan 2k20
Tagged: #look. just bc he didn't inherit the superpowers doesn't mean he's just some guy #tolkien himself attributed boromir's size to him being númenórean #it's not that he isn't in any way; it's that he's not the nearly full-throttle númenórean /type/ that denethor and faramir are #but i think he sometimes gets treated as this kind of generic stand-in for normal people and ehhhhh #it's definitely not how he thinks of himself #and tbh there's a really uncomfortable component (in canon also but unnecessarily carried into fandom imo) #with the whole ... well the stewards and modern gondorians are mixed race so only kinda sorta count as members of their own culture #...thing #nah bro
Tagged: #look. just bc he didn't inherit the superpowers doesn't mean he's just some guy #tolkien himself attributed boromir's size to him being númenórean #it's not that he isn't in any way; it's that he's not the nearly full-throttle númenórean /type/ that denethor and faramir are #but i think he sometimes gets treated as this kind of generic stand-in for normal people and ehhhhh #it's definitely not how he thinks of himself #and tbh there's a really uncomfortable component (in canon also but unnecessarily carried into fandom imo) #with the whole ... well the stewards and modern gondorians are mixed race so only kinda sorta count as members of their own culture #...thing #nah bro