#Boromir dies

[ao3statistics]

Lord-of-the-Rings-Event Week: Day 1: Boromir

Welcome to my LotR charts event!

Date of creation: 10.05.2024

He's supposed to live! Case closed I guess.

I assume no guarantee or liability for the completeness, correctness and accuracy of this chart despite my best efforts.

Includes fanfictions in all languages available on Ao3, NOT English only.

This sounds cute btw but also weirdly specific?

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[sunnibits]

okay wait wait wait hold the fuck up. I may very well be reading into this too much but like. this picture is from the very end of ep8 right,, ARE THEY FUCKING WEARING IZZY’S GLOVE?????? or at least mimicking it???? um????

[iambeees]

broke: Boromir was corrupted by the ring because he was weak of heart

woke: Boromir was corrupted because his heart was full. full of love for his brother, for Gondor, for Minas Tirith. Does that make his heart weak? Does a heart motivated by passions and the desire to help others make it weak? Is it wrong and evil to be weak? friendly reminder, the way Sauron deceived Boromir was not by promising him wealth, nor power, nor his own safety- he thought he would be strong enough to defend a whole city and defeat Sauron. Boromir had a heart that was neither weak nor strong, but both at the same time- his heart was full.

[grondds-and-roses]

Thinking about it (Aragorn getting up early everyday to see the sun rise over the White City for Boromir, Merry and Pippin hearing Boromir's voice every time they pick up their daggers, Legolas and Gimli visiting Minas Tirith on the anniversary of his death or on his birthday, Frodo writing his book and reaching the part where Boromir attacks him and instead of being angry he sympathizes with Boromir and realises that he would have been the only one who would have understood why the ring tempted Frodo at the very end------)

[faramirsonofgondor]

i absolutely adore the way faramir and boromir’s relationship is portrayed on screen. like the way boromir immediately shifts from being happy to annoyed when denethor approaches them because he dislikes the way denethor treats faramir, despite denethor having nothing but praise for boromir. the fact that faramir can acknowledge that boromir has a flaws but also doesn’t allow that overshadow his feelings and grief. the fact that faramir struggles between doing what boromir would’ve done and being himself (which is what boromir would’ve wanted) after boromirs death.

like it was so refreshing to see that siblings can have a good and loving relationship despite their parents favoritism and overall unpleasantness and assholery.

[cup-of-starlight-waters]

thinking about boromir dying and and his last words being “I have failed”

and Aragorn saying “No!” and kissing his brow and “You have conquered. Few have gained such a victory”

and realizing that even here, Tolkien was planting the seeds for Frodo, because Boromir’s victory, the victory Aragorn praised him for was that he fell to the Ring’s temptation but unlike gollum and Isildur he came back—

and because he came back, Frodo could too.

[andromeda3116]

people actually went on about how game of thrones made it socially acceptable to be a fantasy nerd, as though the lord of the rings movies hadn't been released less than a decade earlier and left far greater cultural ripples and i am just

got may have made the adults feel better about liking fantasy, but lotr got into the kids' heads when they (we) were just young and impressionable enough to be absolutely transported and emotionally rewritten by don't you leave him, samwise gamgee and my brother, my captain, my king and and rohan will answer

lotr was rewriting entire generations' brain chemistry long before asoiaf and so obviously it's not fair to compare any post-lotr fantasy novel to it, and each book series was trying to do different things within their own spheres and so that also is not a fair comparison, but in terms of the cultural impact of the adaptations that came out within a decade of each other, saying that it was game of thrones that made fantasy mainstream is baffling

game of thrones could only run because the lord of the rings movies laid the path, and i will die on this hill

[girls-againstgod]

thinking about faramir seeing pippin in his old castle guard livery and thinking about how having that livery made was probably one of the last things denethor ever did for faramir

[furiouswritingbiologykid]

Spoilers for The Acolyte episode 5: Night

UGHHH I HATE BEING RIGHT!

I mean I loved being right about Qimir but NOOO JECKI WHY!!!????

I was so anxious about her I thought she might die but I had almost convinced myself I was wrong and she would be fine but then...

And Yord completely blindsided me, I really didn't think they would kill both of them in one episode. I liked Yord, not as much as Jecki but still.

Of course I ran directly to the waiting arms of Ao3 where there is already one fix-it fic and I expect there will be more soon.

I might have to write something myself...

anyway I just had to rant

[eldest-sibling-tournament]

Eldest Sibling Tournament — Round 1, Part 1

[shut-the-doors]

New fanfic: My Lord

The Lord of the rings (M/M) — 1,581 words

It was mentioned in the book that Denethor would not give Aragorn the throne of Gondor so easily. So I thought, what if Denethor and Boromir hadn't died. This is my little sketch. Also, I really wish Faramir got the praise he deserves.🤭

Aragorn becomes the king of Gondor, but not everyone is happy with it. Denethor sends Boromir to kill him.

Note that this fanfic was originally written in Ukrainian, and this is its English translation.

(I will be grateful for your kudos and comments)

[rainintheevening]

"She said to me 'Even now there is hope left'. But I cannot see it," Boromir says, while Hope stands before him, touches his shoulder, sits beside him.

He looks into the face of his hope, and he doesn't know it.

He couldn't know it, Estel, the nickname bestowed upon Aragorn. But oh, how that scene made me bawl.

And then he knows it at the end.

"I will not let the White City fall," Aragorn says, and Boromir believes him.

"Our people."

"My king."

[distinguisheddwarffriend]

I'm gonna keep doing these Tolkien polls, I just love them.

(As usual no canon/ very popular pairings)

[lesbiansforboromir]

oh OH hO spicey ohhh having a spicey little tantrum about the boromir tag don't listen to me at all do NOT listen I mean it I mean it this is so petty

[findafight]

Honestly I think it's VERY funny that, before the whole, y'know, accused of cultist murder and chased by a mob thing, the dynamic of steddie from an outside perspective of some rando in Hawkins would be EXACTLY the shit tier ugly ass elf gigolas post. Ppl are like why does Steve Harrington who is pretty and rich and athletic like the weird guy who sings to trees? Who might not even use conditioner? And Steve gets his ach nae...I love him moment.

[foundationsofdecay]

extended edition’s boromir and aragorn introduction. why don’t you just kill me