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Boromir was described by Tolkien as a name "of mixed form"; [T 16] it combines Sindarin bor(on)-'steadfast' and Quenya míre 'jewel'. [T 17] But the Stewards of Gondor also often bore names "remembered in the songs and histories of the First Age", [T 16] regardless of meaning, and the name Boromir did appear during the First Age in The ...
The phrase "One does not simply walk into Mordor" redirects to the Boromir page. The Boromir page should have a section, or at least a paragraph, explaining the phrase. Given that the phrase is sufficiently well-known to merit a redirect, it also merits a definition. Karl gregory jones 23:14, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
Boromir, a member of the Fellowship of the Ring, falls to the temptation to try to seize the One Ring, intending to use it to defend Gondor. This at once splits the Fellowship, and leads to Boromir's death as Orcs attack. He redeems himself, however, by single-handedly but vainly defending Merry and Pippin from orcs, dying a hero's death. [26]
In the first film, Sean Bean, playing Boromir, the warrior from Gondor, declares to the Council of Elrond that "one does not simply walk into Mordor". [22] In the second, Andy Serkis's digital Gollum guides Frodo and Sam to the Black Gate. [23]
Being unworthy, Shakespeare wants to release the Youth from the relationship so that "he can have the better life that he deserves". [2] In the closing couplet, Shakespeare says that while the relationship lasted, he felt like a king, but now he realizes it was simply a dream.
William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
Shakespeare's funerary monument. The sonnets of Petrarch and Shakespeare represent, in the history of this major poetic form, the two most significant developments in terms of technical consolidation—by renovating the inherited material—and artistic expressiveness—by covering a wide range of subjects in an equally wide range of tones.
Several scholars have noted that Tolkien makes use of character pairings. Brian Attebery, writing in The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, comments in its article on the literary theory of structuralism that while, like other fantasy authors, Tolkien's work "keeps its good and evil pretty much corralled separately", it can be seen "through a Lévi-Straussian lens, as offering multiple ...