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07-01-2019, 10:04 AM | #1 |
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The Lament for Boromir
I really quite like Aragorn and Legolas' Lament for Boromir, but it does seem to raise a lot of questions that never get answered.
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07-01-2019, 03:04 PM | #3 |
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Turin made and sang a lament for Beleg- but was that his Edainic heritage, or Elvish upbringing?
--------------------------------- Gondor is elsewhere poetically referred to as the "land of seven streams"- probably to echo old Ossiriand, although you can't get the count to seven without counting Gilrain and Serni separately, despite the crossing at Linhir being below their confluence. Or you could include Anduin, which anciently was within Gondor not its border.
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Ah, sorry - I meant that Legolas winds up with a very strong connection to the Sea ("If thou hearest the cry of the gull on the shore" &c), and I think this is the first time that link is drawn.
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Except I guess if it's big enough... hmm. What does Niagara look like at sunset? Okay, admittedly pretty golden: And that gold is visible from the top, too. Sailing over it, Boromir would have vanished into a golden haze. Quote:
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Do we know for sure that's the case, though? The exact phrase he uses is: "If we cannot cross the mountains, let us journey southwards, until we come to the Gap of Rohan, where men are friendly to my people, taking the road that I followed on my way hither. Or we might pass by and cross the Isen into Langstrand and Lebennin, and so come to Gondor from the regions nigh to the sea." It's just possible that 'the road I followed' is the road to the Gap of Rohan, and he originally came by the second route he proposes. Except... nah, because Aragorn points out how long that would take, and it doesn't seem like Boromir took his time travelling. Perhaps it's just a more general statement that the West Wind has often seen him riding across Gondor? Quote:
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07-02-2019, 07:44 PM | #7 |
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Another thought- it's perhaps significant that Turin composed the Laer cu Beleg in Sindarin, not Hadorian. Although the fact that the only one around to hear was Gwindor might have influenced that!
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