#* 𝚅𝙰𝙻𝙾𝚁 𝙽𝙴𝙴𝙳𝚂 𝙵𝙸𝚁𝚂𝚃 𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙴𝙽𝙶𝚃𝙷 ‚ 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝙽 𝙰 𝚆𝙴𝙰𝙿𝙾𝙽

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a part of me is like, how absolutely brain soup would boromir have ended up if he’d been ringbearer but the more i think about it the more i feel like actually he’d get some goddamn perspective? boromir is strong & steadfast, he’s a good man & in many ways is a symbol of exactly what human beings should be. while humans want to be like aragorn, in the end, at our best, we’re boromir & that’s a fuckign fantastic person to be. 

but anyway, the ring is so much? but it should also be noted that the only thing it could exploit in boromir was his love for his people & his desire to have the war end. it couldn’t use power or greed or immortality, only love, which says VOLUMES about boromir as a person, doesn’t it. & through that, while it would be jarring, he’d realize he HAS LIMITS. he can’t do everything. he wanted to take the ring to gondor so that the war would be over, but the longer he’s around it, the more he realizes that’s really fucking dumb. it’s just that he was learning this from like secondhand exposure. & also he was dealing with feeling out of place. 

it’s way easier to be like “holy shit of course the ring is a massive burden so it’s ok to need help” when you’re carrying it, but boromir wasn’t ringbearer. he was on the outside & having like the worst existential crisis of his life & so tldr really, no matter what, he was sorta screwed, but it would’ve been a totally different reality check & arguably he would’ve had healthier support from the other members of the fellowship & this makes me really sad??? thanks for coming to my tedtalk

#* 𝚅𝙰𝙻𝙾𝚁 𝙽𝙴𝙴𝙳𝚂 𝙵𝙸𝚁𝚂𝚃 𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙴𝙽𝙶𝚃𝙷 ‚ 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝙽 𝙰 𝚆𝙴𝙰𝙿𝙾𝙽 #› valor needs first strength‚ then a weapon ❞ ❨meta analysis❩

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anyway !!! i keep talkin to @edhelgund about boromir & aaaaaa gOD look boromir grew up in a place where his father could . uh . read minds & hearts , he could hide NOTHING from his father . denethor smashed down all of boromir’s emotional & mental barriers & boromir learned to live life wearing his heart on his sleeve & presenting himself as who he was . nothing to hide , because he COULDN’T . 

& even though he hid nothing ever , people loved him . boromir was loved by the people of gondor , & he never pretended to be anything he wasn’t . he’s a genuine hero , he wholeheartedly follows his moral compass , because he can’t pretend . he’s really bad at lying when he tries , & it makes him feel like a cat being petted backward anyway , so he really would rather just say the truth , or say nothing . but probably the truth , because before being part of the fellowship , he still basically lived under his father’s thumb & you know . he could hide nothing from denethor , so his mentality is “might as well say it lmao” . 

when he says to frodo that he wants the ring to save his people , that’s all he wants it for . not for himself . not to be a king , not for whatever else it could do . simply to save his people . but the point is , everything boromir does is genuine . his joy , his sorrow , his love , so on so forth , & it would do us all great to be more like that , being genuine . thanks for coming to my tedtalk 

#* 𝚅𝙰𝙻𝙾𝚁 𝙽𝙴𝙴𝙳𝚂 𝙵𝙸𝚁𝚂𝚃 𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙴𝙽𝙶𝚃𝙷 ‚ 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝙽 𝙰 𝚆𝙴𝙰𝙿𝙾𝙽 #* 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙾𝙽𝙴 𝚆𝙷𝙾 𝚆𝙾𝚄𝙻𝙳 𝙽𝙾𝚃 𝙵𝙰𝙸𝙻 #› valor needs first strength‚ then a weapon ❞ ❨meta analysis❩

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ANYWAY speaking of boromir fighting yeah so basically his whole battle style is “if he takes hits he’s up close enough to still kill you” & “the only way to kill him is in fact overwhelming force & long range attacks”. i should note that for all the scars boromir has, in a single fight, he’ll take less injury than like ... 85% of people around him, so those scars are like a timeline of his battles, which also says a lot about how much fighting he does.

he’s far less likely to take a fatal hit in close combat than others who DON’T use the defend-cut-defend sort of style & the injuries on his chest are from early battles where he also didn’t use the defend-cut-defend style, because he LEARNED to do that from living through things. most of his injuries from “recent” battles are on his arms because he got smart & protects his core ( & vital organs ) so uh that’s that 

tl;dr boromir got most of his major scars when he was New to war but now he knows what he’s doing 

#* 𝚅𝙰𝙻𝙾𝚁 𝙽𝙴𝙴𝙳𝚂 𝙵𝙸𝚁𝚂𝚃 𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙴𝙽𝙶𝚃𝙷 ‚ 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝙽 𝙰 𝚆𝙴𝙰𝙿𝙾𝙽 #› valor needs first strength‚ then a weapon ❞ ❨meta analysis❩

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ok & it’s not to say that boromir couldn’t be in touch with his westernesse blood , because of course he could , he just needs like the right environment & he never was given time to . do that . because he was always fighting to keep other people alive , 

#* 𝚅𝙰𝙻𝙾𝚁 𝙽𝙴𝙴𝙳𝚂 𝙵𝙸𝚁𝚂𝚃 𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙴𝙽𝙶𝚃𝙷 ‚ 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝙽 𝙰 𝚆𝙴𝙰𝙿𝙾𝙽 #› valor needs first strength‚ then a weapon ❞ ❨meta analysis❩