Denethor went nuts because of a palantir, right? In the book, isn't he more noble, and Pippin gets all attached to him?

He was despairing not insane in the book.

Denethor went nuts because of a palantir, right?

Pretty much.

IIRC, Denethor's palantir would only show him what Sauron wanted Denethor to see, which was doom and gloom and hopelessness. Wasn't it Faramir's fall in battle and imminent death by poison that finally sent Denethor mad?

I can't remember why Pippen got attached to Denethor. Was it pity? I'll have to go re-read.

I think even in the book, Pippin's more attached to Faramir, whereas Denethor just gets his back up. IIRC, he takes the oath out of wounded pride, as well as a bit of owing something to Boromir.

He's good in Equilibrium, which sucks donkey rocks, he's good in Troy, he's good in that Bond movie, and he's faboo in Sharpe. Plus, tight pants.

teegiggleheehee. This is me.

I lurve Sharpe muchly. Especially the early ones.

Another donkey rocks sucker that Sean is nice to look at in is The Big Empty. (beeeeej! "look at in is"? what kinda phrasing is that?!)

I want to love everything that Jon Favreau does. Can't.

But Sean? Oooooh yeaaaah. Even the Essex Boys. ITA with wanting that one to end pronto.

I do love the Brothers Mir.

And thanks to everyone who's answered my questions and put up with my pestering. I do sincerely appreciate it, and since I'm writing my final, this is the last time I'll hijack the thread.

If anyone cares to hark back to the first LotR thread, they will find my posts loudly lamenting the fact that Aragorn was sadly miscast, that Bean was clearly the better actor, better voice, yadda yadda.

With me, I think it was before we even created a LotR thread. I watched FotR and fell for Sean Bean within five seconds of his first appearance on the screen. "WHY, WHY did they cast him as the one who dies?" thought I. "He should be Aragorn and be in all three movies." I lamented on Natter, and I think it was Hec who pointed me toward the Sharpe series.

I forgave Viggo for not being Sean halfway through TTT, but I still kinda wish the casting had been flip-flopped. They both give good sexy-n-scruffy, but Sean cleans up prettier. And he's got the sexiest voice of any man on the planet not named Avery Brooks.

And he's got the sexiest voice of any man on the planet not named Avery Brooks.

Word, big huge heaping helpings of word. With...little sprinkles of...Sean Bean reading...words.

I was *so* secretly pleased that, even though his rumored "vision" appearance to Faramir was cut from the theatrical TTT, his face, well, his profile, was in it, when he grabs Frodo at Khazad Dum in Frodo's dream in the opening sequence. And he was in RotK, too, when Pippin remembers his dying defense of Pippin and Merry at Amon Hen, and thus he did manage to be in all three movies. Made me happy.

I completely did not remember that his death isn't even in the book Fellowship. It's dispensed with in about two lines at the beginning of TTT.

One further change with regards to Denethor and the Palantir - with or without the Palantir, his death in the book would have been far, far better then the firey plunge off the heliport o'doom.