Boromir is a well-known character from \"The Lord of the Rings\", the great epic work by British writer J.R.R. Tolkien.<\/p>\n
Eldest son of Denethor, Steward of Gondor, Boromir was Captain of the White Tower of Ecthelion.<\/strong> He was one of the nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring formed in Rivendell and met his death at the hands of Saruman's Uruk-hai near the hill of Amon Hen<\/strong>, beside the River Anduin, a scene very well represented in the film version of \"The Fellowship of the Ring\" directed by Peter Jackson (2001).<\/p>\n Tolkien wrote an elegy about this warrior, the \"Lament for Boromir,\"<\/strong> which appears in Chapter 1 of Book Three of The Two Towers. In the book, this elegy is sung by Aragorn (the first and third stanzas) and Legolas (the second)<\/strong>. In the poem, Boromir's companions ask the North Wind, the West Wind, and the South Wind for news of the warrior. As the song ends, Gimli misses the barrage of the East Wind, to which Aragorn replies, \"In Minas Tirith they endure the East Wind, but they do not ask it for tidings.<\/strong>\"<\/em> To the east of Minas Tirith was Minas Morgul, one of the strongholds of Mordor.<\/p>\n In 1996, a few years before the first of Peter Jackson's \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d films was released, the British folk music group Brocel\u00efande<\/a> released an excellent album, \u201cThe Starlit Jewel\u201d<\/a>, featuring thirteen tracks setting Tolkien poems to music. Track number 9 was \u201cLament for Boromir\u201d<\/strong>, which you can hear here (it\u2019s my favorite version of the poem):<\/p>\n
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