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His line "One does not simply walk into Mordor" became famous enough for Bean to comment that the "one does not simply" meme (with variant endings) would "probably be my unintended legacy". [14] In a departure from the structure of Tolkien's book, Boromir's death is shown at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), instead of being related ...
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)
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]
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 ...
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]
The Lord of the Rings trilogy – Released between 2001 and 2003, just as meme culture was taking off, several moments from the films became part of the online culture, with, most notably, Sean Bean's character of Boromir stating "One does not simply walk into Mordor" as one of the most commonly referenced. [172] [173]
Various situations with the character Boromir's head photoshopped into them have been created around the subject; for example, a Star Trek transporter scene is "One does not simply teleport into Mordor." Mordor was eventually word-filtered into "a huge vagina the size of a hallway." "Needs more [...]" A request for a photoshop.
Faramir looks much like Boromir, [T 1] [T 6] who is described as "a tall man with a fair and noble face, dark-haired and grey-eyed, proud and stern of glance". [T 7] In Faramir, "by some chance the blood of Westernesse [runs] nearly true". [T 8] He does not enjoy fighting for its own sake. [T 5]