LOTR's Changes To Boromir’s Death Created Fellowship's Best Scene
Peter Jackson's best change to Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring was how the portraly of Boromir's death, the movie's most meaningful scene. To make The Fellowship Of The Ring work as a movie, changes to the original Lord Of The Rings books were inevitable. The novel is too long to include all of J. R. R. Tolkien's original story. With the sequels, The Two Towers and The Return Of The King, in mind, Peter Jackson was right to condense Boromir's arc into the first movie.
Played by Sean Bean, Boromir is a member of the group that volunteers to help Frodo destroy the One Ring in Mount Doom. He is a famous warrior who joined the fellowship to protect his home, Gondor, from the evil of Sauron. Unlike the others, Boromir believed that the Ring could be used to defeat Sauron. That belief corrupted the noble Boromir to the point he tried to forcefully take the Ring from Frodo, but the Hobbit used the Ring's power to get away. His death shortly followed when he was shot down by orcs while looking for Frodo, marking another on-screen death for Sean Bean.
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Boromir's death is one of the most memorable moments in The Fellowship Of The Ring, but it wouldn't have happened when it did if Peter Jackson had faithfully followed the books. In Tolkien's series, Boromir is still alive at the end of The Fellowship of The Ring and isn't killed until the beginning of The Two Towers. Although the events of his death in the movie are similar to the book, Boromir's demise is shown in full in The Fellowship Of The Ring, rather than being split across the first two installments. The decision neatly wraps up Boromir's story and gives the movie an exciting, but emotional
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