Posted on 10/21/2025 5:43:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bean's 'One does not simply walk into Mordor' moment became a quintessential meme
NEED TO KNOW
-Sean Bean opened up about starring in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Boromir
-Bean explained that some of his “gravitas” in his delivery of his now-iconic line “One does not simply walk into Mordor” was because he was reading his lines off a card
-Bean said writer and director Peter Jackson was re-writing his monologue until the last moment
Sean Bean had one of the most famous moments in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, but it almost didn’t happen.
Bean appeared on the Oct. 2 episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast with host Josh Horowitz, where he talked about his long career in film and television and his on-screen journey to Middle Earth.
In 2001’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Bean played Boromir of Gondor. He agrees to become part of the fellowship that will help Frodo (Elijah Wood) bring the ring to Mordor to destroy it, though he’s tempted by the ring’s power in his quest to save Gondor. After he tries to steal the ring from Frodo, the company is attacked by orcs, and he’s mortally wounded trying to save the Hobbits. He dies after Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) promises to save Gondor.
In one of the trilogy’s most iconic moments, Bean’s Boromir utters the now-iconic (and often-memed) line, “One does not simply walk into Mordor” during the scene where the fellowship is formed at The Council of Elrond. But Bean revealed on Happy Sad Confused that some of his much-praised gravitas during that scene was because he was reading his lines off a card.
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Sean really should have had Bobby DeNiro’s role in the movie Ronin, with Bob playing the jerk.
If Sean had a dollar for every meme based on him delivering that “One does not simply walk into Mordor” line, well, he’d have a lot of dollars.
One does not simply comment.
And that's exactly what they did.
Walking into Mordor? Now that’s soldiering.
I only know Sean Bean from the Richard Sharpe movies. He was perfect for that role.
I agree.
True.
Yep.
Good one.
He played a good villain in the underrated National Treasure
Ian
As much as we’ve seen the extended version of LOTR, and he was just great, he is ‘Ian’ in our house.
Love him
Hard to believe those movies were made 25 years ago. They did the filming in 1999-2000.
I have a shirt with his mug and that line on it.
but it wasn’t simple, was it?
Indeed he was.
... And they still don’t look outdated
Frodo and Sam walked ... Gollum/Smeagol kinda crawled ...
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