![]() ![]() Denethor is even robbed of the palantír justification for his behaviour: rather than snapping under unnatural psychological pressure in service to the realm, film-Denethor is so hung-up on the loss of Boromir that he becomes deaf to the impending War, and then finally snaps when he regrets his own mistreatment of Faramir. ![]() Commonly misinterpreted as a cruel and gibbering nutjob, he is butchered in the Peter Jackson adaptation, to the point where he becomes an incompetent shorn of any positive characteristics: Jackson implicitly invites us to cheer when Gandalf hits him with his staff, while the Steward’s final dash–on-fire represents one of the lowest points of the 2001-2003 trilogy. Denethor II, Steward of Gondor, has had ill-luck on screen. ![]()
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