Re: Irrelevance:

Date: 2005-09-15 03:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fireflowerlass.livejournal.com
HAHA! I love this icon to no end. I'm so glad you enjoyed it too :P
Wait, how did he die in the book? It's been a while.

Re: Irrelevance:

Date: 2005-09-15 04:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pegkerr.livejournal.com
He set himself alight on the pyre he'd had his men built for him and Faramir, and lay back in the flames, holding the Palantir on his chest.

paraphrase: ". . .And ever after, whoever looked into that Palantir, unless he had great strength of will, saw only two aged hands withering in the flame."

Re: Irrelevance:

Date: 2005-09-15 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fireflowerlass.livejournal.com
Ahhhhh so he just burned himself on the pyre. That's right. Hmmm...I wonder what possessed them to make him jump off the cliff?

Re: Irrelevance:

Date: 2005-09-15 08:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] callunav.livejournal.com
Peg, you're a great deal kinder than I am - I was just going to say sourly, "With dignity" and leave it at that.

But I didn't just mean his death, though Flaming Denethor certainly made me apoplectic. I just think Denethor's one of the best-drawn characters of the whole trilogy - which is praise for Denethor, not criticism of the rest - and I felt like the movie-makers trashed him from start to finish.

I can wax eloquent on the (perceived-by-me) iniquities of the LOTR movies - which is not just because they were different from the books, since I'm perfectly capable of enjoying movies that are different from theit books, it's because they were different in ways that really bothered me - but I won't, I think, because if I recall correctly Peg likes them, and I think it would be rude. Also, I can't see what good it would do. Suffice it to say that Denethor's death in the movies displeased me greatly, and so your icon pleases me proportionately well.

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