Horn of Gondor
May. 25th, 2003 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elabyYou know, that title really has far too many nasty implications than this post is going to warrant.
Excuse me whilst I, once again, rant about fans and Tolkien. Feel free, as always, to just ignore this ^^;;
I refuse to believe that I am a silly, brainless fangirl because I don't think Boromir was a bloody SAINT.
Okay.
They don't think he was a saint. But it just seems that all the
self-righteous smart people out there who have loud opinions about
Tolkien, the ones who talk intelligently about it and not the crazy
adolescent Legomance writers, all think Boromir is just so abused.
And yes. I cringe when I see stories in which he commits unspeakable
acts upon random members of the Fellowship and/or Mary Sues, just
because he's really the only one these writers would put in that role.
But STILL. If I have to hear one more time about how misunderstood and
abused and gallant and angsty Boromir is... I dunno what I'm going to
do. Certainly not rant in my deadjournal again, because that's this
entry's moment of bitchiness. Arg.
I found one fanfic where the
writer claimed to be vehemently sticking to book canon... and which
mainly consisted of Boromir yaoi. RIGHT. Slash and canon LotR is about
as improbable as you get. I mean, these people can go ahead and write
all the slash they want - depending on who it is, I'll probably read it
- but don't say you're upholding the tradition of old Professor Tolkien
himself. That's just crazy >_<
And I'm not saying that
Boromir is, as people mocking fangirls have put it, "EEEEEEVIL," but
he's not a nice guy. The first thing he does is make a great impression
of himself by putting down Aragorn, and it's beyond me why Aragorn is
so damn nice to him when he gets shot full of Orc-arrows, since all
they really did the entire time was try to keep away from each other's
throats. Yes, I know, Boromir redeemed himself by dying to save the
hobbits. I know. And I'm glad he did, it would have been awful for the
guy to have just been killed after exacting his Ring-lunacy on poor
little Frodo. But... geez. Maybe I'm just biased, because when you're
eight years old, you don't pick up on subtle nuances when it comes to a
character's moral identity, and I just thought Boromir was a JERK.
Maybe that's why I still don't like him. They made him into such a
sympathetic angst puppy in the movie, though, and you'd think these
purists would get all mad about that - since they get mad about
anything else done differently in the films - but apparently not. Or
maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place. Or maybe I'm wrong
altogether, and I didn't pay enough attention when I read the trilogy
over (and over and over) once I was a thinking adult. And that term is
probably still up for debate.
And I probably should be writing opinionated editorials when I feel like I'm going to cough up a lung O_o
*HACK*
Finished. Aah, bed looks good...
*wrote Simon flashback... a little one. Please by that opportunity, at least*
Excuse me whilst I, once again, rant about fans and Tolkien. Feel free, as always, to just ignore this ^^;;
I refuse to believe that I am a silly, brainless fangirl because I don't think Boromir was a bloody SAINT.
Okay.
They don't think he was a saint. But it just seems that all the
self-righteous smart people out there who have loud opinions about
Tolkien, the ones who talk intelligently about it and not the crazy
adolescent Legomance writers, all think Boromir is just so abused.
And yes. I cringe when I see stories in which he commits unspeakable
acts upon random members of the Fellowship and/or Mary Sues, just
because he's really the only one these writers would put in that role.
But STILL. If I have to hear one more time about how misunderstood and
abused and gallant and angsty Boromir is... I dunno what I'm going to
do. Certainly not rant in my deadjournal again, because that's this
entry's moment of bitchiness. Arg.
I found one fanfic where the
writer claimed to be vehemently sticking to book canon... and which
mainly consisted of Boromir yaoi. RIGHT. Slash and canon LotR is about
as improbable as you get. I mean, these people can go ahead and write
all the slash they want - depending on who it is, I'll probably read it
- but don't say you're upholding the tradition of old Professor Tolkien
himself. That's just crazy >_<
And I'm not saying that
Boromir is, as people mocking fangirls have put it, "EEEEEEVIL," but
he's not a nice guy. The first thing he does is make a great impression
of himself by putting down Aragorn, and it's beyond me why Aragorn is
so damn nice to him when he gets shot full of Orc-arrows, since all
they really did the entire time was try to keep away from each other's
throats. Yes, I know, Boromir redeemed himself by dying to save the
hobbits. I know. And I'm glad he did, it would have been awful for the
guy to have just been killed after exacting his Ring-lunacy on poor
little Frodo. But... geez. Maybe I'm just biased, because when you're
eight years old, you don't pick up on subtle nuances when it comes to a
character's moral identity, and I just thought Boromir was a JERK.
Maybe that's why I still don't like him. They made him into such a
sympathetic angst puppy in the movie, though, and you'd think these
purists would get all mad about that - since they get mad about
anything else done differently in the films - but apparently not. Or
maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place. Or maybe I'm wrong
altogether, and I didn't pay enough attention when I read the trilogy
over (and over and over) once I was a thinking adult. And that term is
probably still up for debate.
And I probably should be writing opinionated editorials when I feel like I'm going to cough up a lung O_o
*HACK*
Finished. Aah, bed looks good...
*wrote Simon flashback... a little one. Please by that opportunity, at least*
