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Boromir character information from the books:

Name: Boromir

Aliases: none

Date of Birth: TA 2978

Race: Man of Gondor

Height: Close to 6 feet

Date of Death: 26.2.3019

Alignment: Good

Parents: Denethor II, Finduilas

Spouse: none

Date of Marriage: N/A

Children: N/A

Physical description: Tall, dark hair, grey eyes, as most men of Gondor. Broad and muscular.

Biography: Eldest son of Denethor II, Boromir was a proud man: proud of himself, and his city. After leading the forces against Sauron at Osgiliath, he went to Rivendell to learn of the answer to the dream he shared with his brother Faramir. At the Council of Elrond he was chosen as a companion in the Fellowship of the Ring. Boromir could be credited with Aragorn for saving the lives of the Fellowship on Caradhras, tunneling through the snow to get the party to safety. Boromir was valiant in battle, as he proved in Moria. However, Boromir had been tempted by the power of the Ring since he first learned of its whereabouts, and the temptation finally proved too much for him at Amon Hen, where he attempted to take the ring from Frodo by force. He instantly repented, but his rant forced Frodo's immediate decision to leave the Fellowship, and strike out for Mordor on his own. Boromir was killed shortly thereafter, defending Pippin and Merry from a raiding orc-band.

Quote from the book:
'Farewell, Aragorn! Go to Minas Tirith and save my people! I have failed.'
'No!' said Aragorn, taking his hand and kissing his brow. 'You have conquered. Few have gained such a victory. Be at peace! Minas Tirith shall not fall!' - Boromir and Aragorn as Boromir dies.

The books says this about Boromir's life, death and him with his brother:

'So time drew on to the War of the Ring, and the sons of Denethor grew to manhood. Boromir, five years the elder, beloved by his father, was like him in face and pride, but in little else. Rather he was a man after the sort of King Eärnur of old, taking no wife and delighting chiefly in arms; fearless and strong, but caring little for lore, save the tales of old battles. Faramir the younger was like him in looks but otherwise in mind. He read the hearts of men as shrewdly as his father, but what he read moved him sooner to pity than to scorn. He was gentle in bearing, and a lover of lore and of music, and therefore by many in those days his courage was judged less than his brother's. But it was not so, except that he did not seek glory in danger without a purpose. He welcomed Gandalf at such times as he came to the City, and he learned what he could from his wisdom; and in this as in many other matters he displeased his father. 'Yet between the brothers there was great love, and had been since childhood, when Boromir was the helper and protector of Faramir. No jealousy or rivalry had arisen between them since, for their father's favour or for the praise of men. It did not seem possible to Faramir that any one in Gondor could rival Boromir, heir of Denethor, Captain of the White Tower; and of like mind was Boromir. Yet it proved otherwise at the test. But of all that befell these three in the War of the Ring much is said elsewhere. And after the War the days of the Ruling Stewards came to an end; for the heir of Isildur and Anárion returned and the kingship was renewed, and the standard of the White Tree flew once more from the Tower of Ecthelion.'

Boromir character information from the film (ONLY what the film said!):

Name: Boromir

Aliases: Unknown

Date of Birth: Unknown

Race: Man of Gondor

Height: Close to 6 feet

Date of Death: Unknown

Alignment: Good

Parents: Unknown. Though he mentions his father

Spouse: Unknown

Date of Marriage: Unknown

Children: Unknown

Physical description: Tall, blond hair, dark greenish eyes. Broad and muscular.

Biography:
From Fellowship:
We first see Boromir as he appears in Rivendell. He walks around in Lord Elrond’s home and sees Aragorn. He admires the sword which cut the Ring off Sauron’s hand before he walks away again. At the Lord Elrond’s council he speaks for using the Ring to help his people but agrees to travel with Frodo and be a part of the fellowship which includes 9 people to destroy the Ring. Boromir says his father is Steward of Gondor so we can guess that Boromir is someone of importance in his homeland Gondor. On the way we see a growing friendship with the Hobbit’s Merry and Pippin and he gains a growing respect for Aragorn. In a conversation with Aragorn he’s close to tears and tells him that his people and his father looks to him to save his country. He fears and worries for his people and that fear makes him try and take the Ring from Frodo though he regrets it as once afterwards. Orcs attack and he defends Merry and Pippin till his death. He is shot by 3 arrows though keep fighting on. He blows his horn for help and Aragorn arrives in time to kill Boromir’s attacker though Boromir himself is dying. Full of regret and remorse he tells Aragorn that he tried to take the Ring and fears now that his homeland will fall. Aragorn says he’ll take care of everything and that he did nothing wrong. Boromir dies in Aragorn’s arms.

From TTT:
Boromir is dead and stays that way; we see nothing of him and he's barely mentioned. Sam mentions him and calls him a traitor (or something like that. How dare he?! After all Frodo does?! He nearly kills him, kills himself and tries to give the Ring away all the time but that's alright because it's Frodo. If that's not love which makes Sam that blind then I don't know what *LOL*)which is a bit odd as he shouldn't know he was dead but maybe Hobbits are secretly telepaths? Interresting *LOL*

From TTT EE:
Faramir remembers his brother and the day they parted. We see how Boromir loves his younger brother and the hero he is. Also we see how mean their dad is. He praises Boromir but ignores Faramir even when Boromir speaks his case.


On Faramir:
Faramir is Boromir's 5 year younger brother who Boromir loved very much and always looked after and protected when they grew up.

From TTT EE:
Faramir sees his brother's body and knows he's dead. He finds Sam and Frodo and remembers his brother and how he took care of him and the close relationship they had (and how evil their dad is). He wants to finally make his father love him so he takes the Ring to the capitel but then he sees that the Ring needs to be destroyed so he guides Sam and Frodo out of town even though he knows his life will forfeit. He threatens Gollum to be nice to Sam and Frodo.

From ROTK:
Faramir speaks with his dad who tells him he wishes he would be dead instead of Boromir. He then orders him to lead a suicide attack on some Orcs which he does and only he returns, badly wounded. His dad thinks the city is lost and tries to burn himself and his son alive but Gandalf and Merry (I think) saves him, repaying the debt of a life Boromir gave him. His dad dies though. Faramir recovers and oversees Aragorn's crownation with Eowyn.

Quote from the film:
“They have a cave troll?!”
- Boromir to the fellowship.

“I would have followed you…my brother, my captain, my King.”
- Boromir to Aragorn as he dies.

Interresting Boromir facts:

- Boromir has a brother
- Boromir means "Faithful Jewel"

I have one big complain about the movie; neither Aragorn nor Legolas sings a funeral song for Boromir (as they do in the book)! I cried for my hero while I think the others in the Fellowship should have showed more emotions. I stand corrected; Aragorn actually did cry for Boromir in the movie; it was just hard to see because the film in itself is shot so darkly. Aragorn's pain was clear from his agonizing farewell scene but the others? Legolas and Gimli didn't seem overly moved.

Sean Bean got a tattoo with the Elvish word for Nine tattooed on his arm as he was one of the Nine Walkers (the Fellowship). The entire cast who played a member of the Fellowship got this tattoo though in differant places. I've heard rumors it was Sean Bean (Boromir) and/or Orlando Bloom (Legolas) who suggested it. If anyone knows for sure then please let me know.

Boromir's Hero Deeds in FOTR:

- Carrying Merry and Pippin through the snow in the mountain pass
- Catching Frodo after the Watcher/monster drops him in the water outside Moria
- Jumping across the staircase gap carrying Merry and Pippin in Moira
-Carrying Frodo away after Gandalf falls
- Charging up the hill to try to rescue Merry and Pippin though horribly outnumbered.
- Fighting the orcs and being shot with 3 arrows by Lurtz but still tries to fight on. In the end giving his life for his friends

Boromir's Hero Deeds in TTT:

- Loves and defends his younger brother towards their dad as remembered by Faramir

Faramir's Hero Deeds in TTT:

- Lets Sam and Frodo leave though he know it could mean his death

Faramir's Hero Deeds in ROTK:

- Help defend Gondor's borders
- Leads a suicide mission to kill Orcs to please his dad

Sean Bean on Boromir's death scene and Viggo [Aragorn]:

"It was great doing that scene with Viggo because he is such a generous, truthful actor and I'm glad he was there with me at the end, as it were, and he brought a sort of peacefulness to it and a spirituality to it, which I think he naturally has as a person. So that was of great help to me."
- From the Toronto Sun

Sean Bean on Boromir as a hero:

DELIVER ME FROM TEMPTATION
Sean Bean tells Ian Spelling about Boromir's battle to resist the temptations of the The Lord of the Rings ....

Sometimes, Heroes fail. Despite all their efforts, they let down everyone who depended on them, and particularly themselves, because a man of action can always be tempted to take the easy answer which seems to offer a quick victory. It's a road to hell pathed by good intentions which has claimed hundreds of real-life leaders and is likely to swallow Anakin Skywalker next summer, and as anyone who's seen The Fellowship of the Ring now knows, the warrior Boromir is its latest victim, having convinced himself that he could wield the Ring of Power for good if he took it for himself.

"He is a sympathetic character," comments Sean Bean, the British actor who plays the heir to the Steward of Gondor in Peter Jackson's movie. "He's sensitive and he's trying to be practical and realistic and strong, but this damned thing is stopping him from doing that. And I think he knows, ultimately, that the Ring will destroy him, and he's just trying to keep it together as long as he can."

So was Boromir always destined to surrender to the Ring, or was he simply an honourable man tempted by a force greater than himself? "I think it's the latter. He means well. He wants to do good. He wants to bring about peace, like everyone else. He wants to try to bring stability and harmony to his people and his society, which is falling apart." Boromir is, after all, in something of an awkward situation. As the eldest son of the Steward of Gondor, he's the latest in an honourable line who have protected the city since the last King died, protecting it for far longer than most genuinely royal dynasties, but now that stable order is threatened not only by the rise of Sauron, but also by the prospect that the true King might return to claim the empty throne. Whatever happens, the world Boromir's ancestors have fought to preserve for generations is at an end... unless he can find a way to save it.

"I don't think he knows the complexities of the various powers the Ring has," Bean explains. "Mortals are more susceptible and he, as an individual, is more prone to its corrupting powers. I think that's a constant battle, as well as the physical battles, that he's fighting throughout the film. It's the inner struggle that he can't cope with. It's just eating away at his very soul. It's like a sickness in his belly that he can't get out of his system. He fights against it, valiantly. He doesn't want it to happen, but can't resist. Not many people can. But he's a human and you see the Ring really go to work on him. That's what I found quite interesting. I like the battles and the physical side, but I found the emotional side most interesting."

Looking back on Bean's career, there's few actors better suited to play such a tormented figure, as he's always played heroes with an edge who could easily tip over the brink into villainy. He won his big break in the early 1990s, when Alien3 co-star Paul McGann (later to star as Doctor Who in Fox's 1996 TV movie) broke his leg while playing football a few days into shooting a series of TV movies based on Bernard Cornwell's novels about the Napoleonic War. Bean stepped into the breach, and notched up a dozen appearances as Richard Sharpe over the next five years, making the hard-as-nails soldier who gave equal priority to winning the war and improving his own finances, one of the most popular characters on British television. In the meantime, he won wider attention in the rest of the world with his roles as Sean Miller, the fanatical Irish terrorist out for revenge on Harrison Ford's Jack Ryan in the screen version of Tom Clancy's Patriot Games, and the treacherous British agent 006 in Pierce Brosnan's first Bond movie, Goldeneye. So why does Bean get cast as the villain so often? "I don't know," he sighs. "I think that once you've done it once.... I think I did well in Patriot Games. I was a very violent and sinister character and I guess it left an impression. People think, 'Oh, let's get him as our bad guy. We know he can do it'. That's great for a while, but after the third or fourth time, you think, 'I've got to move away from this a bit and try to be a bit more sensitive.'

Bean's first step along this path is a futuristic drama called Equilibrium, set in a world where drug-taking is compulsory. "Equilibrium was originally call Librium," Bean explains, "but I think the makers of Librium objected to that. I think it's coming out in February or March. I went from the The Lord of the Rings, which was set 7,000 years in the past, to Equilibrium, which was set in the future. I play a good guy in that. It's a bit like 1984 and I think it will be a good film, as it had a very intelligent script and good actors, among them Christian Bale and Emily Watson."

Bean will also be showing his nice side in a magical children's drama. "I finished Tom and Thomas during last summer, where I play an artist who's trying to sell his work and get over the loss of his wife. We'd adopted a 10-year-old boy who I'm now bringing up on my own, who believes he has another brother and he keeps having these visions of him. It's a children's story, I would say, with a sort of magical feeling to it. It's a really nice role. He's a nice guy. That's why I did it. I thought, "This is really something different for me. And it's quite humorous as well. So I'm going in the right direction."

However, these roles had to wait untl after the marathon shoot of The Fellowship of the Ring, though Bean wasn't in New Zealand for as long as some of the cast. "I was there for about a year. I got home for two or three weeks in the middle of that, but most of the time I was living in New Zealand. And that was fine because New Zealand was a great place to be. I missed them all when I went away. I felt like a fish out of water and couldn't wait to get back."

That's hardly surprising, as almost every member of the cast has spoken of the way the cast bonded together. Indeed, as Sean Bean explains, they were even encoouraged to immerse themselves in Tolkien's world, and given an unusually luxurious amount of time to do so in an era when actors are more used to arriving on set on the day of the shoot. "We were down there in New Zealand for five or six weeks before filming commenced. We all got over there early so we could just immerse ourselves in this whole world, do some more research and talk."

Some of the cast, particularly Christopher Lee, were already long-standing experts on the books, while others - such as Ian McKellen - became addicted to the original text during the course of the shoot. So was Bean already familiar with The Lord of the Rings? "I'd read it a long time ago, when I was much younger, when I was 24 or 25. It was like going into another world. Once you get over the first 200 pages - because it's constantly referring back to who's who - then you can really start enjoying it. And when I signed on for this, I brushed up on it. We took all of that into account, but the material we were working from was a script. We all used the book for reference, as a source of information, but we were making a film. I think we've captured the spirit of the book in a visual way."

Alongside this, the cast had to prepare for the film's physical side, Bean explains. "We were fighting every day, practicing the choreography for the fights and getting familiar with the weapons. By the time we got to filming we were quite good at what we were doing. The master sword trainer, Bob Anderson, was great. He's a real old school character, very - not strict - but clear about what he wants and he won't tolerate any rubbish."

That all sounds a little like army training, and sometimes the shoot needed the sort of discipline that implies, as Bean goes on to explain. "We were shooting a lot at night, and the scene where we fight the serpent in the water, that was really hard. That was tough because it was really cold in New Zealand at the time - it was winter and the water wasn't heated and we were in our costumes for a night shoot that went 12 or 14 hours. That was tough." You start to realise quite how unpleasant it must have been once you remember that after five years of shooting Sharpe in the Ukraine, where conditions aren't exactly luxurious, Bean is well-used to hard shoots.

"That was really tough. I thought I was going to be required the following evening and I was like 'Oh God, I've got to do it again in that f**king cold.' But then I got a call saying, 'Hey Sean, it looks like we might not need you tonight. We're going to do this digitally. 'I thought, 'Oh, that's great.' But I think just the sheer excitement and thrill of being involved in such a thing just carried you through the days when you're tired. It's only afterwards, when I was finished and had gone home to England, that it just hit me and I felt exhausted."

Anyone who's seen The Fellowship of the Ring knows that Boromir's not in the best of shapes by the end of the movie, and he's absent from the remaining books of the series. But since the story's been altered a bit, is there still a chance that we might be seeing a little more of Sean Bean in the second film, The Two Towers? "So I believe. I don't know what I'll look like, probably not very well, but Boromir's brother Faramir has a vision of me. So I suppose, technically, you could say that I'm in The Two Towers."

- From OneRing. Article from unknown (please let me know if you know. Thanks)

Movie info by Nadja Lee(webmistress)


Why the character of Boromir is so fascinating:
I fell in love with this character for several reasons:
1) I find Sean Bean who plays him a great actor.
2) He shows human emotions and desires.
3) He’s not a Mary Sue character; meaning he’s not perfect. He has flaws and that’s refreshing.
4) His character develops during the film.
5) He’s a man with a tortured soul.
6) He seems so lost and alone.
7) He has a heart of gold, a clear mind and he’s valiant and brave.

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