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Monsters of the Multiverse: the death of eldritch blast?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8541065" data-attributes="member: 6803643"><p>Tolkien didn't write the way most other novelists write. Yes, he plotted out rough sketches of where the story was going to take him, but Faramir for example was completely unexpected, emerging from the woods of Ithilien fully formed as he is in the final books.</p><p></p><p>Boromir wasn't originally planned to die. Tolkien envisioned the Breaking of the Fellowship relatively early on, but Boromir's death doesn't enter the story until literally as Tolkien is writing the Breaking of the Fellowship (which at the time included the Departure of Boromir; a split that only happened once it was decided that the story would be broken up into 3 volumes/6 books). Originally, Trotter (proto-Aragorn), Legolas, and Gimli were planned to head south to the Land of Ondor with Boromir after the split, while Merry and Pippin vanish and Frodo and Sam join up with Gollum on the way to Mordor. This sketch of the story as foreseen from Lothlorien took Frodo and Sam all the way to the Cracks of Doom, but completely dropped the rest of the Fellowship out of the picture upon the Breaking of the Fellowship. Tolkien had no idea that Boromir was going to die, he thought Trotter was going to go help Boromir defend Ondor.</p><p></p><p>Boromir's death occurs because in the first draft of the fight, Tolkien writes in the margins that this battle is inartistic.</p><p></p><p>For all intents and purposes, we can call Boromir's death a bad dice roll in Tolkien's brain as he put pen to paper.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 8541065, member: 6803643"] Tolkien didn't write the way most other novelists write. Yes, he plotted out rough sketches of where the story was going to take him, but Faramir for example was completely unexpected, emerging from the woods of Ithilien fully formed as he is in the final books. Boromir wasn't originally planned to die. Tolkien envisioned the Breaking of the Fellowship relatively early on, but Boromir's death doesn't enter the story until literally as Tolkien is writing the Breaking of the Fellowship (which at the time included the Departure of Boromir; a split that only happened once it was decided that the story would be broken up into 3 volumes/6 books). Originally, Trotter (proto-Aragorn), Legolas, and Gimli were planned to head south to the Land of Ondor with Boromir after the split, while Merry and Pippin vanish and Frodo and Sam join up with Gollum on the way to Mordor. This sketch of the story as foreseen from Lothlorien took Frodo and Sam all the way to the Cracks of Doom, but completely dropped the rest of the Fellowship out of the picture upon the Breaking of the Fellowship. Tolkien had no idea that Boromir was going to die, he thought Trotter was going to go help Boromir defend Ondor. Boromir's death occurs because in the first draft of the fight, Tolkien writes in the margins that this battle is inartistic. For all intents and purposes, we can call Boromir's death a bad dice roll in Tolkien's brain as he put pen to paper. [/QUOTE]
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