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I personally adore the fact that Boromir is the only “normal guy” in the entire fellowship, and…
I personally adore the fact that Boromir is the only “normal guy” in the entire fellowship, and therefore is the only one that ages at a normal pace.
So all I can imagine is Boromir having literally no clue how old the others are, and being entirely confused and shocked when he finds out. The rest of the fellowship do not look their true ages, and they definitely don’t act them. Like,
Gandalf: looks sixty/seventy something, is actually 2,000+(who even knows anymore) fights like a freaking boss with the spryness of a 20 year old.
Legolas: looks mid twenties, is actually 2,931 years old, acts like a little kid on an exciting vacation who is also a prince, and knows he’s got power and is just having fun(it’s not an act, that’s really just him)
Aragorn: looks late twenties/early thirties, is actually 87, is the most mature out of the bunch and is the only one who acts like the actual adult he is.(Very tired dad vibes trying to corral his wild children)
Gimli: looks mid thirties/early forties, is actually 139. Fair, honestly, he acts mature most times like Aragorn.(Unless there’s elves involved, and then he bad-mouths them like a teenage mean girl)
Frodo: looks late teens, is actually 50, acts like an annoyed and completely done-with-everyones-antics mid-western dad.(He and Aragorn sit around shaking their heads looking at each other just like “I’m so freaking tired man” “I know man, me too’)
Sam: looks early twenties, is actually 38.(Probably the only one that looks approximate to his true age) and acts like a golden retriever, who will also be terrifyingly protective when necessary(don’t touch mister Frodo, you will get concussed by an iron skillet)
Pippin: looks early twenties, is 28(doesn’t count as looking his age) because he acts like a five year old boy, with zero self-preservation skills.
Merry: looks early twenties, is actually 36. No better than Pippin in this regard, because he is the yin to pip’s yang, the tweedle-dee to pip’s tweedle-dumb, the other person that shares pip’s single braincell if you will.
And so Boromir is just flabbergasted that he is closer to the age of two hobbits he was sure were literal children, than Aragorn who he thought was his same age.
And then he realizes he called a full on 50 year old, who is ten years older than him "little one” just like:
“Tolkien had a strong affinity with horses, which he loved, and became a de facto breaker-in. No…
“Tolkien had a strong affinity with horses, which he loved, and became a de facto breaker-in. No sooner had he broken one horse in but it was taken away. Another would then be given to him and he had to start the process again.”
- Tolkien and the Great War, John Garth, pg. 24
Did you know that Tolkien briefly joined an actual cavalry regiment??? This was during his college years, before the war started. The regiment was called King Edward’s Horse, and it recruited Oxford and Cambridge students.
John Garth’s book really makes you understand that Tolkien’s military involvement started a long time before WWI: as a teenager he was a cadet in his school’s Officer Training Corps, and he was also expected to do some military training in college. It’s wild to think that Tolkien personally experienced the transition from cavalry charges to modern warfare. And very sad, too, that like so many of his characters, he was forced to start training for war when he was just a kid, and then later he had to watch his own sons go off to war.
On a lighter note, now I know where Horse Girl Faramir comes from. “He can master man and beast,” indeed!
wow that’s awesome! now when i read about bill the pony coming home safe to be sam’s forever friend after being turned loose at the gates of moria i’m gonna think about jrrt taming a series of horses that got taken away from him forever.
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