#boromir edit

Boromir • Son of Gondor

after watching the hobbit last week and hearing billy's song in the end credits, i thought of boromir. wouldn't get out of my brain, had to make this short edit in honour of it

Lotr besties it’s time to cry!

*+:｡.｡the world was on fire ｡.｡:+*

I was going to make this a private post, but I'm particularly proud of this edit and I think it would make a decent cover for my Boromir Lives! spin-off. I love the details on her dress and Richard Sharpe! Sean Bean is...quite something. This is how I imagine a clean-shaven Boromir clad in Elven garments to look like. And Julia Ormond is simply gorgeous. Boromir's love interest in [untitled spin-off] is my newest OC, Thalindriel.

I kind of imagine their first meeting to be very Beren-and-Lúthien-like (lazy writing? Probably. Most likely), except that she was also gardening. Singing and tending to plants. She sees him and either screams (she's never seen human) or faints. Or maybe trips on the racket she was using to clean her yard. It's not very poetic, but it would be very relatable. I honestly don't know how their love-story will develop, but I suppose I've got time to think about it. Their children, Erien and Boromir (also known as B), are featured in my current WIP The Lady of Ithilien.

As LOI mostly follows canon, Boromir is rotting at Amon Hen and Thalindriel is probably weeping and mourning him back in Rivendell and will probably make a later appearance when she visits her children in Minas Tirith/Ithilien (unless I change my mind).

It will definitely be challenging to write this spin-off, but I do intend to try. I'm not very good at sparing characters from a horrible fate and I've never written Boromir so...it may as well turn out to be a very bad idea. I suppose there's a first time for everything though, right?

Let me know what you guys think 😊

I was thinking of having Boromir live permanently in Rivendell, but I don't think he would purposely abandon his people just because he fell in love with someone. He's a good and responsible man. But then, if I have Thalindriel move to Gondor, it's basically a retelling of @lucifers-legions' Garo Estel with a different OC.

See? That's why it's hard. I have no idea what Boromir would have done had he survived. But I do agree that he deserves happiness, which is why I'm willing to challenge myself as an aspiring writer.

Cheers to you, my Captain.