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- From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
- Subject: Re: Boromir
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.051358.8768@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 05:13:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.075845.11680@williams.edu> 93rmm@williams.edu (Lord Jagged) writes:
- > Is Boromir basically laudable and good, or not?
- >
- >That is: does he completely blow it in trying to take the Ring from
- >Frodo, or can we accept this as an expected effect of the power of the
- >Ring and forgive him?
-
- I would say that his character has a "tragic flaw" -- it is not so much
- that he is good or evil -- but that he has a weakness he does not
- recognize and guard against.
-
- (I am also reminded of someone's comment that Tolkin wrote characters
- who were architypes of different sides of the personality.)
-
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