I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.

It occurred to me on my last readthrough of The Lord of the Rings that one of the reasons I always found Boromir’s death so tragic was because he failed to protect those that he cared for. He attempts to take the ring from Frodo, driving him away, and then is killed in defense of Merry and Pippin. It was all for nothing, his struggle with the darkness and shadow, and his final stand against the Uruk-hai. 

But really, I think that Boromir’s death achieved something very important. I always questioned why the Uruks settled for only taking Merry and Pippin. Surely Saruman knew the composition of the Fellowship, and would have told his captains that there were four hobbits. It stands to reason that they would have simply rounded up all four just to be safe. Yet they only take two, leaving Frodo and Sam to escape. I think the reason is actually quite simple.

The Uruks are selfish, loveless beings. They have no love for each other, or anything else. They would always opt to save their own skin if given the choice. To their eyes, this great man of Gondor was protecting something important, something very valuable, if he was willing to die for its safety. Boromir’s death insured Frodo’s escape, because the Uruks could not fathom anyone giving their life to defend something so trivial as a friend. It was clear to them beyond a shadow of a doubt that these were the hobbits that their master wanted, and they had no need to look farther. Boromir sealed this with his life. He may not have saved Merry and Pippin, but his death was not in vain.

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i need a picture of boromir with merry and pippin strapped to his front and back in baby slings

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