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
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the next level of did you know viggo mortensen broke his toe when he kicked the helmet and is actually also screaming in pain there:
did you know sean bean taped the script to his knee because they only gave him the script that morning and you can see him looking down when he says one does not simply walk into mordor
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Ned: "You will train them yourselves, you will feed them yourselves, and if they die, you will bury them yourselves."
And then probably Ned 20 minutes later:
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Lmao poor buddy, he really was having the most horrible time
I mean look at him, is that a man who’s having fun?
Boromir’s inner thoughts: “oh no oh no oh no; no one explained anything to me, what’s HAPPENING”
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Every time I refuse to follow my colleagues taking the elevator at work, because it scares the hell out of me, I feel like Sean Bean climbing mountains in full Boromir gear (and sunglasses) just to avoid taking the helicopter along with the rest of the cast members.
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Boromir Lives AU: High Uncle of the White Tower
A follow-up to It's a BABY
First, as so many folks have pointed out, the baby's name, with the boron root, meaning "steadfast, trusty, enduring;" ergo Boromir: "steadfast jewel" and Elboron: "steadfast/enduring star." I love this as a memorial in canon, but we ain't in canon here and I get to make it an honorarium instead because I am drunk with power.
Good luck getting that baby back, Faramir.
"I'll have him wear nonskid waders, I swear."
While this is obviously a nod to Sharpe, I was actually inspired by Sean talking about how he used to play with toy soldiers when he was young ("you know, about twenty") on History Hack.
Later, at the all-units Pass in Review:
Boromir Lives: Helm's Deep
Boromir Lives: Whump-Time After Pelennor
Boromir Lives: GO TO SLEEP
Boromir Lives: Aragorn's Coronation
Boromir Lives: Faramir and Eowyn's Wedding
Boromir Lives: It's a BABY
Boromir Lives: The Haircuts
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