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FotR Extended edition
I finally got to watch the extended DVD version of FotR, and all I've got to say is--amazing. And I realized something awful.
Boromir + movie + book = favorite character.
It struck me like a bolt of lightning that I empathized with everything he was feeling-- from his desire to use the ring to help restore honor to Gondor, to denying Aragorn as his king--Gondor has no king; Gondor needs no king-- to the wonderful argument he had with Aragorn about the fact that although his kingdom and people were weak and fragile, they also had courage and Aragorn couldn't see it.
I always thought of him as the bad apple of the Fellowship, the cursable character that redeems himself in the end with a final, heroic action, only now I find that's not true at all. He isn't a weak man who had a noble moment. He's a noble man that redeemed his honor from the one weakness he had--the Ring, and using that Ring to defeat Sauron. And he died trying to save the Little Ones.
I was bawling through the last half hour of the damned movie. And then, after he died that totally heart wrenching death, and I heard this line--
They will look for him from the White Tower. He will not return.
I started keening. Full, torn-from-the-heart tears. It's not fair, I tell you!! Why did he become my favorite character??
And what was really odd/funny?
I'm keening over my box of tissues, strangling my cat in a desperate cuddle that she's trying to get out of with all her strength, and my Dad pats my shoulder and says, "Maybe they'll find a Dragon Ball and wish him back to life."
My response? Half-hysterical giggling.
Insanity.
And just as I suspected, Gimli's line of asking Galadriel for a strand of her hair and getting three strands turned me into utter mush. I am a wimp. A psychotic wimp.
Happy 2003, everyone. Hope everyone wasn't crying hysterically like me. ^^
Boromir + movie + book = favorite character.
It struck me like a bolt of lightning that I empathized with everything he was feeling-- from his desire to use the ring to help restore honor to Gondor, to denying Aragorn as his king--Gondor has no king; Gondor needs no king-- to the wonderful argument he had with Aragorn about the fact that although his kingdom and people were weak and fragile, they also had courage and Aragorn couldn't see it.
I always thought of him as the bad apple of the Fellowship, the cursable character that redeems himself in the end with a final, heroic action, only now I find that's not true at all. He isn't a weak man who had a noble moment. He's a noble man that redeemed his honor from the one weakness he had--the Ring, and using that Ring to defeat Sauron. And he died trying to save the Little Ones.
I was bawling through the last half hour of the damned movie. And then, after he died that totally heart wrenching death, and I heard this line--
They will look for him from the White Tower. He will not return.
I started keening. Full, torn-from-the-heart tears. It's not fair, I tell you!! Why did he become my favorite character??
And what was really odd/funny?
I'm keening over my box of tissues, strangling my cat in a desperate cuddle that she's trying to get out of with all her strength, and my Dad pats my shoulder and says, "Maybe they'll find a Dragon Ball and wish him back to life."
My response? Half-hysterical giggling.
Insanity.
And just as I suspected, Gimli's line of asking Galadriel for a strand of her hair and getting three strands turned me into utter mush. I am a wimp. A psychotic wimp.
Happy 2003, everyone. Hope everyone wasn't crying hysterically like me. ^^