wish fulfillment au where boromir lives through amon hen and since the ring has moved on his thoughts are clear and he’s just aragorn’s devoted right hand
and he and gimli bitch endlessly about the run across rohan because “i had THIS MANY ARROWS in my chest i want our hobbits back but CAN WE SLEEP” and he’s 5000% shitty to rohirrim who don’t respect aragorn and he and eowyn become rampaging bffs and he gets in on the body counting at helm’s deep (“ARAGORN I’M BEHIND I’M GOING TO THE DOOR” “YOU ARE NOT GET BACK HERE”) and he and treebeard become instant kin because mi hobbit es su hobbit and he goes through the dimholt pass with aragorn and hates every single second of it but is unfailingly by his side through all of it
and then gets to minas tirith and reunites with faramir and finds out pippin is a guard of the citadel and has to go lock himself in a room and laugh for hours
Like so much so that I’ve got the url ‘aroboromir’ saved.
Like gosh this is a wonderful headcanon. Aroace Boromir who always supported Faramir in everything, including his silly boyhood crushes, though he didn’t really get what the big deal was all about. Aroace Boromir who began to feel pressure from his father about marrying and continuing the family line, and felt uncomfortable about the prospect of it. Aroace Boromir who secretly always wanted kids (he would have made an AMAZING dad tbh, way better than Denethor ever was) though he couldn’t really idealize who he’d want them with.
Aroace Boromir who is so reminded of little kids by the hobbits (even though technically they were pretty much the same age as him) and immediately grows attached to them, especially Merry and Pippin. Aroace Boromir who disregards Aragorn at first, since he’s both Isildur’s heir AND he never shuts up about his stupid romance with Arwen, geez, it’s not THAT big of a deal man. Aroace Boromir who is deeply troubled while in Lothlorien because of just how deep Galadriel looked into his mind – she saw everything, including his confusion about why he doesn’t feel the same way about romance and sex as everyone else, and he feels laid bare by all the feelings he’d been repressing until then.
Aroace Boromir who waxes poetic about Gondor all the time, loving his country and his family more than anything else. Aroace Boromir who dies defending those who he saw as his children and his friends, aroace Boromir who dies full of love for the Fellowship and for his country, aroace Boromir who never truly discovered who he was. AROACE BOROMIR, GUYS. MY BEAUTIFUL SON WHO DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER, MY BEAUTIFUL AROACE SON.
“He stepped quickly away, and eyed with alarm the tall Man, nearly twice his height and many times his match in strength. ‘Why are you so unfriendly? said Boromir. ‘I am a true man, neither theif nor tracker. I need your Ring: that you know now; but I give you my word that I do not desire to keep it. Will you not at least let me make trial of my plan? Lend me the Ring!’ ‘No! no!’ cried Frodo.”
“The River had taken Boromir son of Denethor, and he was not seen again in Minas Tirith, standing as he used to stand upon the White Tower in the morning. But in Gondor after-days it long was said that the elven-boat rode the falls and the foaming pool, and bore him down through Osgiliath, and past the many mouths of Anduin, out into the Great Sea at night under the stars.
For a while the three companions remained silent, gazing after him. Then Aragorn spoke. ‘They will look for him from the White Tower,’ he said, ‘but he will not return from mountain or from sea.”
okay, boromir ruffling frodo’s hair has always made me laugh, ‘cause even though frodo looks like a cute little kid (aww), he’s actually 51 – ten years older than boromir…….
just look at the look he sends him in the last gif
Aw Yiss 