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To: Overtaxed; HairOfTheDog ;JenB
... excerpt from interview via theonering.net ... Sean Bean and Viggo ...

SB:
Bean as Boromir
"Boromir shows him there are good things to be found in man."

VM: "I envy his certainty to some degree."

SB: "...because you are man, and a certain aspect of knowledge is ignorance."

VM: "I think that is something that Tolkien spoke about. He said too much knowledge can be dangerous. Characters like Elrond, or Gandalf, or Galadriel or Aragorn, who have the benefit of this overall view of the history of Middle-Earth, are very wary about telling anyone what to do. People have to come to the right decision of their own free will. The most precious thing in Middle-Earth is not the Ring, but the free choice of the individual. The evil of the Ring is that it takes away anybody's individuality. You lose yourself. It tempts you by saying that you will become greater, but in fact, you become nothing."

1,146 posted on 03/27/2002 7:00:45 AM PST by Countyline
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To: Countyline
Very good quote Countyline!
1,147 posted on 03/27/2002 7:03:15 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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