Genius LotR Easter Egg You Never Noticed Makes Boromir's Death Even More Heartbreaking

The character death aspect is one of the things J. R. R. Tolkien is usually accused of. After all, in The Lord of the Rings everything is simple – all the good guys survive, all the bad guys die.

But in fact, Tolkien's attitude toward character death is rather unique to the fantasy genre as a whole.

In other books, in the worst case, the character dies and no attention is paid to it. In the best case, the people around them are a little sad after the death, but then the plot just goes on. There are exceptions, of course, but they are rare.

There are no "unimportant" deaths in Tolkien's works. The death of Gandalf or Thorin resonates deeply in the hearts of the characters.

But the most revealing is the death of Boromir. Legolas, Aragorn, and Gimli give him the best possible funeral, despite the situation. Frodo, who has every reason not to love Boromir, mourns him deeply.

The death of Boromir in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy is one of the scenes that the director has done even better than Tolkien himself.

In the book, Boromir's death occurs "behind the scenes," and the characters discover this at the beginning of the second book, The Two Towers, after finding his body.

However, Peter Jackson decided that Boromir deserved a fitting end and filmed one of the most heartbreaking scenes in the trilogy.

Boromir dies a hero, fighting to the last against the orcs and protecting Merry and Pippin. However, a carefully hidden detail makes this scene even more tragic.

This Easter egg is hidden in the Howard Shore soundtrack that plays throughout the scene.

While Boromir is fighting, martial music is playing, but when the first Orc arrow pierces him, the music changes to become slow and quiet, and when Boromir dies, an Elven choir can be heard singing.

If we translate these words, we get: "I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the Warrior for his glory. I love the homeland which they defend."

These are the exact words (except for the last line) spoken by Faramir, Boromir's brother, in the book The Two Towers.

We're not crying, you are.