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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 3554241" data-attributes="member: 114">I was very disappointed by Boromir's death in the FotR movie - I thought his death in the books was epic, and it should have been possible to capture that on screen. The film version seemed more about the badassitude of the orc archer than about Boromir himself.One of the most moving novel deaths that I've ever read has probably not been read by anyone else on these boards, even though it is a sci-fi novel.In the first of the Cities in Flight series by James Blish, the protagonist is walking with his dog too near to a place where a city is about to take off. A group of soldiers comes to grab him and bring him to safety, but the boy doesn't want to leave his dog. A fight starts, and the trusty dog joins in to rescue him, but the boy is knocked out. He comes to as he is being carried away, and he wants to know where his dog is. One of the soldiers says 'he got away' but the boy spots out of the corner of his eye his faithful friend lying dead by a boulder.I can't believe that I'm choking up writing this, and it must be a quarter of a century or more since I read that passage  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>