… they are wayward if mishandled.
What does that even mean? You have to pet them and say nice things to them? You have to dry them off with soft flannel every night and sing them to sleep? When you handle them you must use the expression “If you please” for the particularly gentlemanly tone it implants?
Why does he agree to stay with them until the Tindrock?
Going there anyway. Might as well take credit for altruism.
Was he? I thought he was suggesting not looking for the portage-way, and heading direct West.
That way, he could run across Snaga, who would be scared there was another lone traveller in Rohan, and get really frightened.
I wonder if Boromir made it past Pelargir without being stripped naked? I wouldn’t put it past the corsairs painting a funny face on his tummy or writing “Oh, dear/ the long career/ of Boromir/ doth end I fear” on his forehead.
That explains why they were so afraid of the Army of the Dead.
Aragorn was nothing; but the dead Boromir had a grudge.
Men were just too dang tall. The Men had to force a path for the passage of themselves, the wizard, and The Elf. If it was just Gimli and the hobbits they could have saved a lot of effort and just tunneled through to freedom.
So he just added another 70 kilos to the exhausted-already Bill.
If you're a passenger, you might as well travel in style.
Notice he didn’t dare say it until The Dwarf was asleep. At least Boromir isn’t suicidal.
One in a family is enough.
Either principled skepticism or self-interested denialism.
That is, it depends on the observer.
Agreed.
But what if Denethor wasn’t? Would Boromir go against his father, the current legitimate ruler of Gondor who already has the precedent of the Council of Gondor against Arvedui's claim, and thus Aragorn’s claim?
I don't think he's planning so far.
